Brookdale Westlake Hills: Comprehensive Review

Overview

Tucked into the Westlake Hills area of Austin, Texas at 1034 Liberty Park Drive, Brookdale Westlake Hills is a continuing care retirement community that pairs independent living and assisted living with a 90-bed skilled nursing center certified by Medicare. This review zeroes in on that skilled nursing center, since it is the part Medicare.gov Care Compare actually rates. You can reach the community at (512) 328-3775.

Medicare.gov Care Compare gives the Brookdale Westlake Hills skilled nursing center an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars, which is average. The overall score combines three measures: health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. This facility scores very differently across the three, so the details matter more than the headline number.

At a glance

Types of services offered

Independent living

Brookdale offers independent living for active seniors who want to stop managing a home:

• Private apartments in multiple floor plans
• No home maintenance, housekeeping, or laundry
• Community amenities and social activities
• Two meals daily
• Transportation for outings and appointments

Assisted living

Residents needing help with daily tasks receive personalized care including:

• 24-hour emergency response system
• Help with activities of daily living (ADLs)
• Medication management
• Regular health screenings
• Three meals daily plus snacks
• Weekly housekeeping and laundry service

Skilled nursing

The skilled nursing center is the Medicare-certified part of the community and provides round-the-clock nursing care, including:

• Physical, occupational, and speech therapy
• Recovery care after hospitalization

• Pain management
• Wound care
• IV therapy
• Care for chronic conditions

Medicare ratings, staffing, and inspections

What the ratings show

• Care Compare rates the facility on a five-star scale in three areas. Brookdale Westlake Hills earns 5 stars for quality measures, its strongest result, which reflects good outcomes on the clinical measures Medicare tracks. It earns 4 stars for staffing. Its weak spot is health inspections, where it earns just 2 stars, or below average.
• Staffing is a genuine strength here. The center reports about 4.79 total nurse staffing hours per resident per day, well above the roughly 3.5 hours that federal analysts use as a general benchmark. Of that, registered nurses provide about 0.76 hours per resident per day. Higher nurse staffing is one of the more reliable signals of quality in a nursing home.
• The health inspection record is the real concern. The most recent standard health survey, completed on April 9, 2026, cited 8 health deficiencies. Over the period Medicare tracks, the facility has drawn 6 federal fines totaling $300,561, along with 6 penalties. That enforcement history is why the health inspection rating sits at 2 stars, and it is worth asking the administrator directly how those problems have been corrected.
• A few basics: the skilled nursing center is licensed for 90 beds and cares for about 48 residents on an average day. It is a for-profit facility certified by Medicare, and it does not participate in Medicaid. Medicare's records show no abuse icon on its profile. All figures here come from Medicare.gov Care Compare, with data processed in June 2026.
• Bottom line
• Brookdale Westlake Hills combines independent living and assisted living with a Medicare-certified skilled nursing center. On the skilled nursing side, Medicare gives it an average overall rating of 3 stars. The picture is genuinely mixed: strong staffing and quality-measure scores on one hand, and a below-average inspection record with multiple fines on the other.
• If you are considering the skilled nursing center for a short rehabilitation stay or longer-term care, the high staffing levels are a real point in its favor. Balance that against the inspection and penalty history, and ask what has changed since the most recent survey in April 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Brookdale Westlake Hills located? It is at 1034 Liberty Park Drive, Austin, TX 78746. The main phone number is (512) 328-3775.

Is it a Medicare-certified nursing home? Yes. It operates a 90-bed skilled nursing center certified by Medicare, alongside independent living and assisted living. The skilled nursing center holds an overall Medicare rating of 3 out of 5 stars.

• How is its staffing? Reported total nurse staffing is about 4.79 hours per resident per day, above the roughly 3.5-hour general benchmark, with about 0.76 registered-nurse hours per resident per day. Staffing earns 4 stars from Medicare.
• What are the weak points? Health inspections. The rating is 2 stars, the most recent survey on April 9, 2026 cited 8 deficiencies, and Medicare records 6 fines totaling $300,561.

Where does this information come from? All ratings, staffing, inspection, and penalty figures come from Medicare.gov Care Compare, with data processed in June 2026.