Life Care Center of Jacksonville

Life Care Center of Jacksonville is located in Jacksonville, Florida, which appears to have a variety of nursing homes. Featuring an overall grade of A-, this nursing home is ranked among the more impressive facilities we looked at. In fact, this nursing home is ranked among the fifteen best nursing homes in the city. Jacksonville is fortunate to have so many nursing homes of this quality. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care score, which we will address in the next section.

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an A. Short-term care grades are critical for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 59 percent of its patients returning home.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for inspections. Inspection scores are based on several items found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

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. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the higher totals we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in many of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to major injury, this nursing home performed better than the national average.

The final area we rated was long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of B-. This actually was this facility's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not a poor grade. In our long-term care rating, we assess the amount of services provided by a facility, as well as some quality data points. In addition to assessing the very respectable level of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this facility, we also were pleased by the facility's vaccination statistics. For example, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.79487 percent of its residents, which is an impressive total. This combination proved to be successful as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.36 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.