Life Care Center of Jacksonville is an average-sized nursing home in Jacksonville, Florida. This nursing home was given an overall rating of A-. In fact, this is actually one of the fifteen best nursing homes in the city. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is a great choice for most people. This nursing home was also given phenomenal grades in all four of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Life Care Center of Jacksonville
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
Among its many high-end scores, this nursing home was given a strong long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in that area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.64641 percent of its residents, which is slightly lower than we expected. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we scored is short-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. This actually turned out to be this facility's worst category. A facility is doing something right when their weakest grade still outperforms most other facilities. Short-term care grades are typically employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Jacksonville Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 9.26% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 2.76% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term patients which suffered falls which caused severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 0.3% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that had UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 21.73% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 38.28% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 0.58% of Patients
This is the percent of patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 96.82% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 3.42% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 3.38% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 3.38% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 11.77% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Life Care Center of Jacksonville, 95.19% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's generally correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Scores for Jacksonville, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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