Life Care Center

This facilities grades were terrible across the board. In particular, we wanted to draw your attention to its poor short-term care grade where it received an F. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing. This means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Among this nursing home's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection rating. Typically, this means we found some red flags on its inspection reports. With facilities that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed large government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This typically signifies that a poor performance has been an issue for several years.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the category of long-term care. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated only 85.41667 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The next area we rated is nursing. This facility was given a very poor grade of F in that category. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.