West Wharton County Hospital District

Primary specialty

Skilled Nursing FacilityTaxonomy code 314000000X

Legal business name

WEST WHARTON COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT

Practice address

5800 W Baker Rd
Baytown, TX 77520-1618

Phone

(281) 425-1200

Fax

(281) 425-1922

NPI assigned

Feb 18, 2019

Organization subpart

No

Registry information is reported by the provider to CMS and is not verified. About this source

Authorized official

Name

Paul Soechting

Title

Chairman

Phone

(979) 543-6251

Specialties & licenses 1

Addresses

Other names 1

• St. James House of Baytown Doing business as

Medicare fee-for-service enrollment

Enrolled in TX

Enrollment records 1

Skilled nursing facility certification: CCN 675999

Legal name

WEST WHARTON COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT

Certification status

Active

Provider type (POS)

Nursing home – SNF/NF dual certification

Participating since

Jan 13, 2004

Last certification

Jun 27, 2024

Beds

105

Ownership / control type

Corporation

Organization structure

GovernmentNon-profit

Enrollment address

5800 W Baker Road
Baytown, TX 77520-1618

Nursing home name

ST JAMES HOUSE OF BAYTOWN

Listed as

St James House of BaytownCCN 675999

Overall star rating

5 of 5

Health inspections

4 of 5

Staffing

2 of 5

Quality measures

5 of 5

Type

Medicare and Medicaid

Ownership

For profit - Corporation

Certified

Jan 13, 2004

Medicare certification status

ActiveFrom the Provider of Services file

Certified beds

10599.2 residents per day on average

Penalties (3 years)

1Fines totaling $14,901

Processed by Care Compare on Aug 1, 2026.

Tax ID family

West Wharton County Hospital District104 organizations share this tax ID, including this one

Organizations with this tax ID in the same state 24

This tax ID family is large, so up to 24 of its organizations in the same state are linked here.

• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Baytown, TX
  • NPI 1194237404
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Clifton, TX
  • NPI 1194324079
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Granbury, TX
  • NPI 1205894185
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Mexia, TX
  • NPI 1215483037
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • El Paso, TX
  • NPI 1225810203
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Wichita Falls, TX
  • NPI 1245923549
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Denton, TX
  • NPI 1255113239
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Eagle Lake, TX
  • NPI 1255297230
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Fort Worth, TX
  • NPI 1265291447
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • De Leon, TX
  • NPI 1275171910
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Rusk, TX
  • NPI 1275916090
  NPD tax ID
• West Wharton County Hospital District

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • San Marcos, TX
  • NPI 1285190249
  NPD tax ID

All disclosed owners & managing parties 48

As disclosed on the Medicare enrollment (CMS All Owners files). Individuals include officers, directors and managing employees, who may not hold ownership.

All facility ownership & control disclosures 92

Facilities whose Medicare enrollment lists this provider’s PECOS associate ID as an owner or managing party.

Practitioners 1

Individual providers connected to this organization through Medicare benefit reassignment, Care Compare group membership or National Provider Directory roles.

• Jerome Charles Wasserstein, D.O.

  • Geriatric Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician
  • Houston, TX
  • NPI 1174584452
  NPD (past)

Affiliated clinicians 1

Clinicians who list this facility as an affiliation in Medicare Care Compare.

• Jerome Charles Wasserstein, D.O.

  • Geriatric Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician
  • Houston, TX
  • NPI 1174584452

  Nursing home

  Care Compare affiliation

The complete NPPES record for this NPI in the NPI Registry API format.

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• Medicare enrollment (CMS PECOS): enrollments, PAC IDs and benefit reassignments; facility enrollments, owners and changes of ownership; Provider of Services certification data.
• Medicare Care Compare (CMS): clinician profile, group practices, facility affiliations, MIPS scores and star ratings.
• National Provider Directory (CMS): practice roles, locations, licenses, networks and endpoints.

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