Nursing home
Fort Worth Transitional Care Center
850 12Th Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104 · Map
Government - Hospital district · Part of Wellsential Health (67 facilities) · 136 certified beds
Fort Worth Transitional Care Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Fort Worth, Texas. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 2/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.38 hours per resident per day, below the Texas average of 3.40. Its most recent inspection on Feb 13, 2025 cited 18 deficiencies.
- 3 fines totaling $33,557In CMS records: 4 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Fort Worth Transitional Care Center compares
This facility vs. the Texas and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Texas avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.38 | 3.40 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.82 | 0.44 | 0.68 | above avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.73 | 2.01 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 72.1% | 51.5% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 18.0 | 9.1 | 9.5 | above avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
Penalties in CMS records: 3 fines totaling $33,557, 4 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
What inspectors found at Fort Worth Transitional Care Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Sep 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Actual harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jun 24, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jun 24, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide timely, quality laboratory services/tests to meet the needs of residents.
Administration Deficiencies · Apr 11, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Make sure there is a pest control program to prevent/deal with mice, insects, or other pests.
Environmental Deficiencies · Feb 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Feb 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure meals and snacks are served at times in accordance with resident’s needs, preferences, and requests. Suitable and nourishing alternative meals and snacks must be provided for residents who want to eat at non-traditional times or outside of scheduled meal times.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Feb 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Feb 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Feb 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Feb 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Feb 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 850 12Th Avenue
Fort Worth, TX 76104 - CMS certification #
- 676255
- Ownership
- Government - Hospital district
- Certified beds
- 136
- Avg residents/day
- 81.3
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 2010-07-22
- Chain
- Wellsential Health (67 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Wellsential Health
Wellsential Health operates 67 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Wellsential Health facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Website says Respite stays, transportation
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Fort Worth Transitional Care Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
DOL also concluded 1 case here with no violations found, most recently for a period ending May 21, 2021.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Medical City Fort Worth, Fort Worth. 0.2 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 2 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, Fort Worth. 0.8 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Dfw Home Health, Fort Worth. 0.4 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 0.3 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 76104 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Cook Childrens Medical Center Dialysis Unit, Fort Worth, 0.4 miles away, straight line
Usrc Tarrant County Pd, Fort Worth, 0.8 miles away, straight line
Usrc Fort Worth, Fort Worth, 0.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 58 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 76104.
Alpha Omega Hospice, office in Fort Worth, 0.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 1 of 5 stars)
St. Gabriel'S Hospice And Palliative Care, office in Fort Worth, 0.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Valor Hospice, office in Fort Worth, 0.6 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Dallas Medical Specialists, PLLC, Fort Worth. 0.1 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively moderate. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire very low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake relatively low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | Not in a mapped zone | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Fort Worth Transitional Care Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Fort Worth Transitional Care Center an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 2/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Fort Worth Transitional Care Center staffed?
Fort Worth Transitional Care Center reports 3.38 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Texas average of 3.40.
Has Fort Worth Transitional Care Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 18 deficiencies.
How many beds does Fort Worth Transitional Care Center have?
Fort Worth Transitional Care Center is certified for 136 beds.