Life Care Center of La Center
252 W. 5th Street, La Center KY 42056 · (270) 665-5681 · 73.71% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Life Care Center of La Center is a facility located in La Center, Kentucky, a city with a population of 1,982 people. With an overall rating of B+, this is a very good nursing home. This facility truly has plenty of good features. The best aspect of this facility's strong report card was its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 70 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of being an elite facility overall, this nursing home performed well in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Very few facilities performed this well in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility was awarded impressive marks in the area of long-term care as well. As a result, it received one of our strongest scores in that category with a score of A-. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 95.187164 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. The last statistic we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 2.17 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our next area, this nursing home also received a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. Short-term care ratings are vital for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that it performed respectably in this area with 45 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The last category we looked at is nursing, in which this nursing home was awarded a C. This proved to be this facility's weakest area. This is nevertheless not the end of the world. We assessed the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, this place was relatively weak in some of the data points we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of La Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better