Life Care Center of Las Vegas

With an address in Las Vegas, Nevada, Life Care Center of Las Vegas is on a list of 30 nursing homes in the city. We gave this facility a B- overall, which is a decent grade. This is comparable with the city grade in Las Vegas, which is a B. You can certainly do worse than this facility. This facility was stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

We gave this facility an A- in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are important for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Nevada in this area with 61.8 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this area. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Our nursing score considers numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in some of the major areas we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are typically reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

The final category we rated was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Long-term care grades are typically used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated a relatively low 57.545273 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.67 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the medical complexity of patients.