Cedar Creek Nursing: Food Safety Violations Found - TX
Federal health inspectors cited the facility on May 29, 2026, under a deficiency category covering how food is procured, stored, prepared, distributed, and served. The citation, assigned a scope and severity level of E, means inspectors determined the problem was not an isolated incident. It was happening across the facility with enough regularity to constitute a pattern.
No resident was documented as harmed. But the inspection record is clear that the potential for more than minimal harm existed.
That distinction matters in how federal regulators classify nursing home violations. A pattern-level finding means inspectors observed the same problem in multiple instances or across multiple residents, not a one-time lapse a facility can explain away as an off day in the kitchen.
Cedar Creek sits in Bandera County, a small Hill Country community roughly 45 miles northwest of San Antonio. The facility serves some of the most medically vulnerable people in that community, residents who depend entirely on staff to provide food that is safe to eat.
The specific nature of what inspectors found inside the kitchen or dining operation is not detailed in the publicly available inspection summary. What the record shows is that the facility fell short of professional standards for food service, the same standards that govern whether food comes from approved sources, whether it is stored at safe temperatures, whether preparation and distribution protect residents from contamination or spoilage.
Those standards exist because the consequences of getting them wrong in a nursing home are not the same as getting them wrong anywhere else. Residents in long-term care facilities are older, often immunocompromised, frequently managing multiple chronic conditions. A foodborne illness that a healthy adult might shake off in a day can put a nursing home resident in the hospital. For some, it can be worse than that.
The deficiency was filed under regulatory tag F0812, a citation that covers the full chain of food safety from the moment supplies arrive at a facility's loading dock to the moment a plate is set in front of a resident.
Cedar Creek reported a correction date of June 26, 2026, roughly four weeks after the inspection. Whether that correction addressed the root cause of the pattern or simply brought the facility back into technical compliance is not something the inspection summary addresses.
The complaint-driven nature of the investigation is worth noting. Inspectors did not arrive as part of a routine annual survey cycle. Someone filed a complaint, and that complaint triggered the visit. That means someone connected to the facility, a resident, a family member, a staff member, saw something that concerned them enough to report it.
Complaint investigations tend to be narrower in scope than full annual surveys. Inspectors come in focused on the specific allegation. The fact that they found a pattern-level violation within that focused review suggests the problem was visible enough that it did not require an exhaustive search to document.
The facility's response, a correction date set about a month out, is standard procedure. Providers cited for deficiencies are required to submit a plan of correction and identify a target date by which the problem will be resolved. That plan is not made public in the inspection summary, and CMS does not independently verify corrections until a follow-up visit occurs.
What that means practically is that for the roughly four weeks between the May 29 citation and the June 26 correction date, residents at Cedar Creek were eating meals prepared and served under conditions that federal inspectors had already flagged as falling below professional standards.
Cedar Creek is not a large regional chain. It is a single facility in a small Texas county, the kind of place where many residents have lived in the same community their entire lives, where family members may drive in from nearby ranches or towns to visit on weekends, where the staff and the residents often know each other's names and histories.
That context does not change what inspectors found. A pattern of food safety failures is a pattern of food safety failures regardless of how small the town or how familiar the faces.
The residents eating in that dining room had no way to know whether the food in front of them had been stored correctly, sourced from an approved supplier, or prepared under conditions that met the standards their facility is legally required to maintain.
They trusted that it had been. The inspection record says that trust was not fully warranted.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Cedar Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation Center from 2026-05-29 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Cedar Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bandera, TX was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 29, 2026.
The citation, assigned a scope and severity level of E, means inspectors determined the problem 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.