Life Care Center of Wichita is located in Wichita, Kansas. This city is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in the nation with has 409,656 people. We gave this nursing home a B overall, which is a quality grade. We were also impressed that Wichita received a B+ city grade, making this one of the best places to find a nursing home. Even in a city offering 23 nursing homes, this facility should be a quality choice. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Life Care Center of Wichita
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is 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
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Part of the reason this nursing home performed well overall is that it fared well in the category of inspections, with a grade of B+ in that category. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor dings aren't the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Another quality feature for this facility is that it was awarded a favorable short-term care grade. In fact, this proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is often a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.
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Nurse Quality
In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses spend with patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we looked at is long-term care, ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. This really was one of the few weak points on a very solid profile. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Wichita Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 7.05% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 5.14% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 3.56% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indication of poor nursing care. However, this datapoint may be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 17.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 22.38% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 5.98% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 91.04% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 16.84% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 19.61% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 19.61 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 10.57 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Life Care Center of Wichita, 74.57% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of independence with activities of daily living generally correlates with better rehabilitation services.
Scores for Wichita, KS
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Wichita, Kansas has 22 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Wesley Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.52 miles away550 N Hillside Street Wichita Kansas 67214Proprietary(316) 962-2000
- Ascension via Christi Hospitals Wichita, Inc.Acute Care Hospitals 3.31 miles away929 North St Francis Street Wichita Kansas 67214Voluntary non-profit - Church(316) 268-5000
- Kansas Medical Center LLCAcute Care Hospitals 7.09 miles away1124 West 21st Street Andover Kansas 67002Proprietary(316) 300-4000
- Ascension via Christi Hospital St. Teresa, Inc.Acute Care Hospitals 13.42 miles away14800 West St Teresa Wichita Kansas 67235Voluntary non-profit - Church(316) 796-7800
Nearby Dialysis
- Pediatrics Dialysis Service at Wesley1.45 miles away550 N Hillside Wichita Kansas 67214Dialysis Stations: 4 (316) 962-2000
- East Wichita Dialysis Center1.54 miles away320 N. Hillside Wichita Kansas 67214CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (316) 684-3200
- Renal Care Group- Wichita East2.89 miles away9341 E 21st N Wichita Kansas 67206CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (316) 634-6760
- Fmc - Wichita3.41 miles away1007 N. Emporia Wichita Kansas 67214CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (316) 264-3115
- Wichita Dialysis Center3.45 miles away909 N. Topeka Wichita Kansas 67214CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (316) 263-9090
- Ne Wichita Dialysis Center3.51 miles away2630 N Webb Rd Bldg 100 Suite 100 Wichita Kansas 67226Dialysis Stations: 12 (316) 636-5719
- Davita Air Capital Dialysis5.03 miles away1812 S Seneca St Suite 110 Wichita Kansas 67213Dialysis Stations: 17 (316) 263-1248
- Andover Dialysis7.62 miles away626 S Andover Rd Suite 900 Andover Kansas 67002Dialysis Stations: 18 (316) 733-2984