Hendrick Skilled Nursing Facility is certified as a Medicare facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1986-12-05. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (325) 670-6151 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Hendrick Skilled Nursing Facility holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 5 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (5★), Staffing (5★), and Quality of Resident Care (5★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 98.8/100, placing it #54 of 14703 facilities nationally and #2 of 1177 in Texas. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Hendrick Skilled Nursing Facility receives a reported average of 9 hours 53 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 4 hours 4 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 2 hours 30 minutes; Nurse Aide — 3 hours 19 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 9 hours 10 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 5 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 42.9%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 12 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $17,741. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 0 fine(s) totaling $0, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 0. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 5.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Hendrick Skilled Nursing Facility ranks 54th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 98.8/100), placing it in the top 5% nationwide. Within TX, it ranks 2nd out of 1,177 nursing homes. In Abilene, it ranks 1st out of 11 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 1st of 3. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #22 nationally and RN hours rank #43 nationally (#3 in TX). Our composite quality score of 98.8/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Abilene, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/texas/abilene/