Heritage Park Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center

A skilled nursing and rehabilitation center in east-central Austin near the Cherrywood and French Place neighborhoods, operated by the nonprofit Wellsential Health. Services listed include skilled nursing, cardiac and pulmonary care, stroke and wound care, and therapy. The building includes a secure memory support unit.

Heritage Park Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center is at 2806 Real Street in Austin (78722), in the neighbourhood east of the University of Texas campus. It is operated by Wellsential Health, a non-profit company with administrative offices in Victoria, Texas, that runs more than sixty skilled nursing and rehabilitation centres across the state. Wellsential publishes a section explaining what it calls the non-profit difference, alongside its vision, mission and values.

This is a clinical setting rather than a lifestyle community. Skilled nursing and clinical services listed for Heritage Park include seven-day-a-week admissions, cardiac care, pulmonary care, stroke care, respiratory therapy, tube feeding, wound care and respite care. Therapy services cover physical, speech and occupational therapy, outpatient therapy, post-surgical care, orthopaedic care and joint replacement rehabilitation. Behavioural health management is listed under Alzheimer's and other dementia care. Hospice, palliative care and home health services are available through the wider organisation. The centre states that it accepts Medicare, Medicaid, managed care and private pay. No Texas facility ID is published on the location page.

Practical features matter most to families weighing a rehabilitation stay here. The centre lists private and semi-private rooms, a secure memory support unit, an outdoor courtyard, a beauty salon, transportation, WiFi and cable service. Respite care and seven-day admissions make it a realistic option for a family managing a sudden discharge from hospital or needing short-term cover. Wellsential also operates several other centres in the Austin area, including Southpark Meadows, Windsor of Duval and Pflugerville. The centre's number is 512-474-1411.

Location and contact

How Texas regulates this provider

As a skilled nursing facility, this provider is licensed by Texas HHSC and, if Medicare or Medicaid certified, is also surveyed federally and rated on CMS Care Compare. Both the state inspection history and the federal rating are worth pulling.

• Current license status: TULIP LTC Provider Search (current license status)
• Inspection and deficiency history: Legacy LTC Provider Search (survey and deficiency history)
• To report a concern: HHSC Complaint and Incident Intake, 1-800-458-9858, Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central

Evaluating a skilled nursing facility

• Pull both records: the HHSC survey history and the CMS Care Compare rating. They surface different things, and the payroll-based staffing data on Care Compare is the more reliable signal.
• Ask whether the stay is expected to be short-term rehabilitation or long-term care, and what happens when Medicare coverage for rehabilitation ends.
• Ask about therapy intensity and who provides it, since post-acute outcomes track closely with it.

Austin in context

Austin proper has the widest range of care levels in the metro and the widest range of prices with it. Central and west-side communities price toward the top of the market; north and northeast Austin is generally more moderate. Traffic is the practical constraint families underestimate — a community fifteen minutes away at 10 a.m. can be forty at six in the evening, and evening is when most visits actually happen.

Other nursing home options near Austin

• Querencia at Barton Creek — Austin
• Longhorn Village — Austin
• Westminster — Austin
• Brookdale Westlake Hills — Austin
• Brookdale Lakeway — Lakeway
• Hearthstone Nursing and Rehabilitation — Round Rock

Listing details verified 2026-07-20 against the provider's own published information. We are not affiliated with this community and do not represent it. Details change — confirm directly before making a decision.