Sweetwater Healthcare Center

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 Jan 22, 2007.

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.

OSHA workplace safety inspections

OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.

• Sep 15, 2017: programmed (planned) inspection, partial (safety). Case closed Jan 12, 2018. 2 violations cited (2 serious). Penalties: $18,107 proposed, $10,864 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Senior Living Properties LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
  Details

  • Serious: Construction: fall protection (1926.501(b)(1)). Penalty $12,675 proposed, $7,605 now. To be fixed by Jan 5, 2018.
  • Serious: Cited rule 1926.503(a)(1). Penalty $5,432 proposed, $3,259 now. To be fixed by Jan 5, 2018.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital, Sweetwater. 1.8 miles away, straight line.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Sterling Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare Cente, Sweetwater. 1.7 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Rolling Plains Home Health, Sweetwater. 1.8 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Maloney's. 0.7 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 79556 as micropolitan (micropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Fmc Rolling Plains, Sweetwater, 1.9 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)

Hospice

9 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 79556.

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Concord Medical Group Of Texas PLLC, Eastland. 91.6 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

FEMA has a flood map for this community (effective June 19, 1989), but it is not in FEMA's digital flood map data, so the zone at this address could not be read. FEMA's Map Service Center has the map. (FEMA flood map)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: relatively moderate. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively low, wildfire relatively low, tornado very high, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake very 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.