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Life Care Center of Blount County

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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1965 Stewart Lane,
Louisville TN 37777

(865) 984-3146

84.25% estimated occupancy 1

Life Care Center of Blount County is in Louisville, Tennessee, a city with 11,274 people. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this facility should work for most people. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top third of all facilities in the nation. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile is its short-term care grade. We discuss short-term care in the next section

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • No Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home also received an A+ in short-term care. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

This nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. This is one of the few facilities with an overall score in this range which earned multiple category grades this high. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. This is really what you like to see in this important metric.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In computing our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Moving on to our next area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D for our long-term care category. This is the nursing home's worst category score. However, we wouldn't dwell on a single bad score. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 85.61151 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Life Care Center of Blount County Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 17.21% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 3.6% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are routinely linked to lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 1.44% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 16.55% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for many medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 25.93% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This measures the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 18.75% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 88.64% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 13.89% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate the decline of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 19.81% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who retained mobility levels. Some would argue that mobility is vital to residents' physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 19.81% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-minus

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 8.08% of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In Life Care Center of Blount County, 85.85% of Resident

This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Blount Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.39 miles away907 E Lamar Alexander Parkway Maryville Tennessee 37804Government - Local(865) 983-7211
  • University of Tn Medical Center (The)Acute Care Hospitals 7.08 miles away1924 Alcoa Highway Knoxville Tennessee 37920Voluntary non-profit - Private(865) 544-9000
  • Parkwest Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.87 miles away9352 Park West Blvd Knoxville Tennessee 37923Voluntary non-profit - Private(865) 970-9800
  • East Tennessee Childrens HospitalChildrens 8.45 miles away2018 Clinch Ave Sw Knoxville Tennessee 37916Voluntary non-profit - Private(865) 541-8000
  • Fort Sanders Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.48 miles away1901 W Clinch Ave Knoxville Tennessee 37916Voluntary non-profit - Private(865) 541-1101
  • Tennova Healthcare-North Knoxville Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 14.51 miles away7565 Dannaher Way Powell Powell Tennessee 37849Proprietary(865) 545-8000
  • Fort Loudon Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.67 miles away550 Fort Loudon Medical Center Dr Lenoir City Tennessee 37772Voluntary non-profit - Other(865) 271-6000
  • Methodist Medical Center of Oak RidgeAcute Care Hospitals 18.59 miles away990 Oak Ridge Turnpike Box 529 Oak Ridge Tennessee 37830Voluntary non-profit - Private(865) 835-1000

Nearby Dialysis

  • East Tennessee Dialysis Center5.32 miles away1629 East Broadway Avenue Maryville Tennessee 37804Dialysis Stations: 18 (865) 681-2900
  • Total Renal Care, Inc.5.86 miles away714 East Harper Street Maryville Tennessee 37804CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (865) 379-1070
  • Dci Maryville6.34 miles away1851 Crest Rd Maryville Tennessee 37804Dialysis Stations: 24 (865) 983-2212
  • Knoxville Central Dialysis7.62 miles away9141 Cross Park Drive Suite 102 Knoxville Tennessee 37923Dialysis Stations: 8 (865) 531-4681
  • Fmc Cedar Bluff7.92 miles away431 Park 40 North Blvd Knoxville Tennessee 37923Dialysis Stations: 19 (865) 690-7517
  • Dci Knoxville8.05 miles away3734 Martin Mill Pike Knoxville Tennessee 37920CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 48 (865) 573-3944
  • Bio-Medical Applications of Tennessee8.56 miles away1826 Ailor Avenue Knoxville Tennessee 37921Dialysis Stations: 4 (865) 524-5308
  • Fmc Dialysis Fort Sanders9.04 miles away1740 Western Avenue Knoxville Tennessee 37921CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (865) 523-1516

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=445520