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Life Care Center of Cheyenne

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Life Care Center of Cheyenne's website

1330 Prairie Avenue,
Cheyenne WY 82009

(307) 778-8997

66.75% estimated occupancy ¹

Life Care Center of Cheyenne is a senior living facility located in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a city with a total of 86,283 people. This facility received an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable rating. We rated this facility as one of the top 25 nursing homes in Wyoming. We were also pleased to find that this place didn't have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts 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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Awards

Best Nursing Home in Wyoming Awards 2019

Registered Staff Hours

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Short-term Care Quality

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is frequently a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Facility Inspections

This nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its recent inspections. We gave it an A for that category. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

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Nurse Quality

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing ratings are largely based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Long-term Care Quality

The next area we assessed was long-term care. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a solid grade of C. This was this facility's weakest area. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 99.66216 percent of its patients, which is an above average datapoint. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Life Care Center of Cheyenne Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 8.5% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 2.36% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of long-term residents who had a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 2.62% of Patients had UTIs

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care residents who have sustained UTI's. UTI's could be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric may also be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 11.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents which were prescribed antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 9.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic tells you the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 6.45% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 95.29% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 13.64% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 17.77% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

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

This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 17.77% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 9.71% of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Life Care Center of Cheyenne, 81.63% of Resident

This is the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.75 miles away214 East 23rd Street Cheyenne Wyoming 82001Voluntary non-profit - Other(307) 633-7600