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Life Care Center of Rochester

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
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Life Care Center of Rochester's website

827 W 13th St,
Rochester IN 46975

(574) 223-4331

38.79% estimated occupancy 1

Life Care Center of Rochester is a large non-profit facility in Rochester, Indiana. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel overall grade based on the data we assessed. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Rochester. The city has just one other nursing home. Nevertheless, this facility surprisingly performed well in our inspections category, which you can read more about below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we gave it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid facilities that have a long list of deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 10 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

This nursing home ended up receiving a bottom of the barrel grade in our long-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 74.881516 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing score analyzes many subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

Moving on to our last category, this facility really did not perform well in this area either. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Based on its weak rating in this area, we weren't shocked to learn this facility provides significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Life Care Center of Rochester Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 7.46% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients that have pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of quality of care.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 7.11% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls which result in injury are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 15.3% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 15.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 1.44% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 87.01% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 19.31% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate the deterioration of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 17.22% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 17.22% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 14.34% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Life Care Center of Rochester, 77.18% of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Woodlawn HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 1.6 miles away1400 E 9th St Rochester Indiana 46975Government - Local(574) 223-3141
  • Pulaski Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.12 miles away616 E 13th St Winamac Indiana 46996Voluntary non-profit - Other(574) 946-2100
  • Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center - PlymouthAcute Care Hospitals 19.71 miles away1915 Lake Ave Plymouth Indiana 46563Voluntary non-profit - Church(574) 948-4000

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=155379