SilverSpring Health and Rehabilitation Center

    1690 N Treadaway Blvd, Abilene, TX, 79601
    3.6 · 87 reviews
    • Independent living
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    2.0

    Nice facility, inconsistent and risky

    I have mixed feelings. The building is clean, bright and comfortable, the rehab team and many caregivers were outstanding, rooms and dining areas are nice, and activities kept residents engaged. But care is wildly inconsistent: chronic understaffing, missed meds/showers, poor communication, safety and hygiene lapses, and even reports of neglect, abuse and theft. My advice: this place can be excellent on good shifts - but monitor care closely and be cautious.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    3.64 · 87 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.9
    • Staff

      3.4
    • Meals

      2.3
    • Amenities

      4.3
    • Value

      2.0

    Pros

    • Many individual staff praised as attentive, caring, and polite
    • Strong rehab and therapy services reported in multiple reviews
    • Engaging activities and social programming (Bingo, trips, holiday events)
    • Clean, new or well-maintained facility and rooms noted often
    • Pleasant outdoor/common spaces (courtyard, patio, fountain)
    • Friendly and helpful admissions and front-desk staff
    • Dietary staff described as hardworking and sometimes serving tasty meals
    • Staff willing to help with Medicaid/business office navigation
    • Drivers and some support staff described as nice and professional
    • Long-tenured nurses and some stable caregivers trusted by families
    • Events and decorations appreciated (Easter egg hunt, door decorations)
    • Some families gave high overall ratings and strong recommendations
    • Individual clinicians and leaders frequently singled out by name for excellence

    Cons

    • Chronic understaffing, especially evenings and night shifts
    • Inconsistent care quality; reports range from excellent to neglectful
    • Missed, late, or wrong medications and lapses in medication administration
    • Failure to provide timely basic care (bathing, changing sheets, toileting)
    • Serious safety and medical incidents (catheter mismanagement, oxygen not given, trach bleeding)
    • Poor communication with families and slow escalation to physicians
    • Instances of personal property loss or damage (theft, broken items, lost hearing aids/teeth)
    • Food frequently described as cold, unappealing, or substandard
    • Management and leadership perceived as unresponsive, rude, or defensive
    • Sanitation and incontinence care problems reported (soiled sheets/diapers left long periods)
    • Allegations of neglect, abuse, yelling, and unprofessional behavior by staff
    • Staff training and oversight concerns; nurses aides stretched too thin
    • Safety/environment issues for high-fall or wandering residents (bed height, unsecured areas)
    • Inconsistent admission experience vs reality; some felt facility was oversold
    • Budget constraints cited as underlying many care and staffing problems
    • Reported COVID outbreak and prolonged visitation restrictions

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the reviews is highly mixed and polarized. Many reviewers describe exceptional, compassionate care provided by specific staff members and by therapy/rehab teams; others describe serious neglect and safety failures that led to hospitalizations or worse. The most consistent positive themes are strong individual caregivers and therapy staff, an attractive and clean physical environment with usable outdoor spaces, and active social programming that residents enjoy. Conversely, the most consistent negative themes are chronic understaffing and inconsistent quality of care, with multiple accounts of missed medications, delayed or absent basic personal care, and troubling medical errors.

    Care quality and safety: Reviews indicate two distinct patterns. One group of families experienced attentive, skilled nursing and therapy that improved recovery and encouraged activity. These reviews frequently name staff who went above and beyond and cite successful rehab outcomes. The opposing pattern includes multiple reports of neglect (missed meals, long intervals with soiled bedding or diapers, denied pain medication), medication and treatment errors (wrong meds, oxygen not administered, catheter mismanagement), and serious adverse events that required ER transfers. Several reports explicitly mention formal grievances, CMS complaints, or intentions to contact Medicare. Safety issues extend to environmental concerns (unsafe bed heights, unsecured areas for wanderers) and staffing ratios that reviewers say increase fall risk and reduce timely response to calls.

    Staffing, management, and culture: A dominant critique is understaffing—particularly evenings and nights—leading to rushed care, missed showers and medication passes, and overwhelmed CNAs. Many reviews say CNAs themselves are hardworking and caring but simply overburdened. Management and leadership receive frequent criticism for poor communication, not addressing complaints, being rude or defensive, and failing to ensure adequate training or oversight. That said, admissions and front-desk personnel are often described as organized and professional, and multiple reviewers singled out business office staff and named clinicians for being helpful, which indicates pockets of effective leadership amid broader managerial concerns.

    Facilities, cleanliness, and activities: The building, common areas, and courtyard receive predominantly positive comments; many reviewers praise cleanliness, a bright welcoming atmosphere, and organized events (Easter Egg Hunt, holiday meals, Bingo, trips). Rehab and therapy spaces are noted as good, and social programming is frequently highlighted as a real strength. However, some reviews contradict the general cleanliness praise by describing specific hygiene failures (urine odor in hallways, soiled bedding left too long), suggesting inconsistency between different units, shifts, or periods.

    Dining and dietary staff: Opinions on dining are divided. Several reviews commend the dietary staff as hardworking and serving flavorful, healthy meals and special event lunches. Others describe meals as cold, unappealing, and repetitive (beans or canned tuna reported), with some accounts of forgotten meals. This split suggests variability in meal quality and meal delivery consistency.

    Patient-family communication and personal property: Communication with families is a recurrent concern—delayed updates, poor escalation to physicians, and lack of responsiveness after hours are common complaints. Multiple reports of missing, damaged, or stolen personal items (teeth, hearing aids, other belongings) raise serious trust and security concerns. A reported COVID outbreak and a visitation ban that lasted many months also damaged family confidence for some reviewers.

    Patterns and reliability: The reviews show a facility capable of delivering high-quality, compassionate care in many cases, especially in short-term rehab contexts, but also reveal recurring systemic issues—staffing shortages, management lapses, and significant variability between shifts or units—that create real risk for residents who require consistent, attentive long-term nursing care. Praise is frequently tied to specific named staff members, suggesting that positive experiences are often driven by individual caregivers rather than uniformly reliable systems.

    Notable incidents and escalation: Several reviews describe events that go beyond dissatisfaction and into potential medical negligence: oxygen concentrators not maintained, wrong medications given, catheters mishandled leading to hospitalization, trach bleeding, and severe delays in responding to urgent needs. These accounts are serious and were accompanied in some cases by formal complaints and threats of legal action.

    Conclusion: Prospective residents and families will find both strong reasons to consider this facility and significant red flags. Strengths include a clean, attractive environment, strong rehab/therapy programming, active social life, and many praised individual employees. Weaknesses center on staffing levels, inconsistent care quality, medication and safety errors, inadequate management responsiveness, and occasional reports of neglect or theft. These patterns suggest the facility can provide excellent short-term rehab or care when staffed and supervised well, but there is also a non-trivial risk of inconsistent care for long-term residents, especially during understaffed shifts. Families should ask specific questions about staffing ratios, night shift coverage, incident reporting and escalation procedures, property/security protocols, and consistency of medication administration before making placement decisions. Observing multiple shifts (including evenings) and speaking with families of current long-term residents may reveal whether a given unit’s positive reports reflect systemic quality or rely on exceptional, individual staff members.

    Location

    Map showing location of SilverSpring Health and Rehabilitation Center

    About SilverSpring Health and Rehabilitation Center

    SilverSpring Health and Rehabilitation Center sits on North Treadaway Boulevard in Abilene, TX, and offers several levels of care, starting with independent living for those who need only a bit of help to folks needing assisted living, full skilled nursing, and memory care. The center takes care of people needing long-term stay, transitional care between the hospital and home, as well as short-term rehab for a week or so, giving a wide range of options for families and older adults. The staff provides 24/7 supervision from nurses, with care for daily living activities and more complicated needs like pain management, dialysis, medication management, and rehabilitation. There's a therapy department with trained professionals who work on physical, occupational, speech, and even respiratory therapy, using advanced technology to give support and help people recover strength or keep abilities for as long as possible. They look after people who need help with meals, unique diets, or managing medical treatments every day, and they use specialized programs for different health conditions, taking extra care with memory issues and the very frail. The building includes spaces and amenities to help with comfort during recovery, and the staff's known for being compassionate and steady. SilverSpring has resources, support, and information for families dealing with long-term care or even Long-Term Care Insurance, and they have an ombudsman who helps listen to and sort out any complaints or worries. The center runs a community newsletter, dedicates itself to wellness, and aims to tailor all its care to each resident's changing needs. With a rating of 3.3 from 29 reviews, SilverSpring Health and Rehabilitation Center remains focused on care and providing a safe place for many levels of need, from folks recovering quickly to those staying for longer periods.

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