Deer Creek Nursing: Food Safety Violations Found - TX
The citation at Deer Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation, issued during a complaint investigation on December 1, 2025, found that the facility was not procuring, storing, preparing, or serving food in accordance with professional standards. Inspectors classified the problem as a pattern, meaning it was not an isolated incident. No actual harm to residents was documented, but inspectors determined there was potential for more than minimal harm.
The facility has filed no plan of correction.
That last fact matters. When a nursing home receives a deficiency citation, it is expected to respond with a written plan describing what went wrong, what it will do to fix it, and when. Deer Creek has done none of that. The deficiency remains open.
Food safety violations in nursing homes carry particular weight. The people living in these facilities are among the most medically fragile in any community, many of them elderly, many managing chronic illness, suppressed immune systems, or conditions that make a foodborne illness not an inconvenience but a crisis. A pattern of failures in how food is sourced, stored, prepared, or served is not a paperwork problem. It is a sustained condition in the place where residents eat every day.
The citation falls under regulatory tag F0812, which covers the full chain of food handling, from the moment food enters a facility to the moment it reaches a resident's tray. Inspectors can cite this tag for a wide range of problems: food stored at unsafe temperatures, products sourced from unapproved suppliers, cross-contamination risks in food preparation, improper handling during service. The inspection report does not specify which of these failures inspectors observed at Deer Creek, only that a pattern existed across more than one instance.
Deer Creek of Wimberley was cited for two deficiencies total during this inspection. The food safety violation was one of them.
Wimberley is a town of roughly a few thousand people in Hays County, nestled in the Hill Country between Austin and San Antonio. For residents of a nursing facility there, options are limited in ways they are not in a city. Families may live at a distance. Transfer to another facility is not simple. The people inside Deer Creek are, in many respects, where they are because they have to be.
That context does not appear in the inspection report. What does appear is a facility that, as of the date this report was filed, had acknowledged no wrongdoing and proposed no remedy.
The severity level assigned to this deficiency, designated E on the federal scale, means inspectors found a pattern of noncompliance with the potential to cause more than minimal harm, even if no resident was documented as having been hurt. The federal scale runs from A to L. Level E sits in the middle range, above isolated incidents with no harm potential, below situations involving actual injury or immediate jeopardy to life. It is serious enough to require a formal response. Deer Creek has not provided one.
Complaint investigations are triggered differently than standard annual surveys. They begin when someone, a resident, a family member, a staff member, or a visitor, contacts the state with a concern serious enough to prompt a visit. The inspection on December 1st was that kind of visit. Someone raised an alarm. Inspectors came. They found what they found.
The record does not say who complained, or what they described. It says inspectors substantiated a pattern of food safety failures and left a facility that, so far, has not said what it plans to do about them.
For the people who live at Deer Creek, the kitchen is not an abstraction. It is breakfast every morning and dinner every night. It is the medication that requires food, the appetite that depends on what arrives warm and safe, the basic expectation that what is placed in front of you will not make you sick. A pattern of failures in that system, unacknowledged and uncorrected, is the condition those residents are living inside.
The citation stands. The correction plan does not exist.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Deer Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation from 2025-12-01 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
Corrections may have occurred: Inspection reports reflect conditions observed on the date of the survey. Facilities may have implemented corrections, staffing changes, additional training, or other remediation since the report was issued. We report what CMS provides and encourage readers to seek current information from the facility.
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Deer Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation in Wimberley, TX was cited for violations during a health inspection on December 1, 2025.
Inspectors classified the problem as a pattern, meaning it was not an isolated incident.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.