Life Care Center of Pensacola is in Pensacola, Florida. This city is among the most populated cities in the country with has a total of 254,917 people. We awarded this facility an overall score of A, which is a first-rate rating. In fact, this is the highest graded facility in the city. This is just about as good of a nursing home as you'll find. This also wound up being a very consistent nursing home with consistent scores in all four of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.
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Life Care Center of Pensacola
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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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
- Stroke Recovery
- 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. Our inspection scores are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was dominant in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Very few nursing homes received a better grade in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is short-term care. Adding to its dominant resume, this nursing home also excelled in that category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A for that area. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our fourth category, this nursing home also performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A- in this category. This topped off a straight A report card. We looked at the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented with better nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Pensacola Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 6.01% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 3.6% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who experienced falls resulting in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Additional nurse staffing can minimize the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 11.55% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Sadly, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 23.1% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percent of long-term patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 1.18% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many in the industry would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 99.47% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 4.89% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 6.36% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 6.36% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 19.82% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Life Care Center of Pensacola, 92.24% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Pensacola, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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Nearby Dialysis
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