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Texas nursing homes / nature / everyday life
Choose a nursing home, then compare its policies and nearby nature, culture, food, recreation, and everyday services with separate walking and driving routes.
Statewide explorer
Search by facility, city, ZIP, or county. Map clusters open as you zoom.
Select a nursing home to begin.
Daily freedom & comfort
These policies are not in CMS Care Compare. Record an answer and its evidence for each facility; both remain only in this browser.
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Federal nursing-home rules address resident choice, suitable meal alternatives, private communications and mail, visitation, and notice around leave/transfer rules. Exact Wi‑Fi/streaming access, delivery procedures, sign-out steps, diet restrictions, and visiting logistics still require facility confirmation.
42 CFR §483.10 · Resident rights · 42 CFR §483.60 · Food and nutrition
How to read the map
A destination is highlighted as a potential walk when Valhalla finds a pedestrian route of one mile or less. Confirm sidewalks, crossings, shade, slope, gates, operating hours, wheelchair access, and personal mobility needs before relying on it.
Driving mileage and time use the current OpenStreetMap road network. They are estimates, not live traffic predictions. The nearest place by map route may not be the best or most accessible choice.
A mapped lake, beach, swimming area, or swimming hole is not proof that swimming is permitted or that water quality is safe. Check the current land manager and health advisories.
Bird blinds, butterfly gardens, fishing access, trailheads, galleries, and small local businesses are not mapped uniformly. “Not found” means the current public index returned no suitable candidate—not that none exists.
Public data sources
Facility facts come from CMS. Nearby places and routes are calculated from public mapping services only after you select a nursing home.
CMS Care Compare Provider Information, modified September 30, 2026; facility records processed September 1, 2026. The scope is active Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes, not every assisted-living residence.
Esri World Geocoding Service supplies public place candidates for libraries, trails, food, errands, culture, nature, and recreation. Names, categories, and operating status can change; verify before travel.
OpenStreetMap contributors supply the basemap and routable street/path network. Valhalla calculates pedestrian and automobile route estimates. If routing is unavailable, the result says so.
42 CFR §483.10 and 42 CFR §483.60 provide the federal resident-rights and food/nutrition baseline. They do not substitute for a facility-specific answer.
The tool does not request or store the visitor’s location. Selecting a public facility sends its coordinate and nearby candidate coordinates to map/search/routing services, which may retain standard request logs.
Because bird blinds are inconsistently indexed in general place databases, Happy Life supplements map search with these public operator pages: