Life Care Centers of America

    3570 Keith St NW, Cleveland, TN 37312
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Reviews

    2.33·(12)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.7
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      1.0
    • Amenities

      2.3
    • Value

      2.3

    Pros

    • Warm reception during visits
    • Compassionate staff and leadership
    • Consistent and caring service across Life Care locations
    • Community generosity
    • Exceptional care for one resident

    Cons

    • Reported gaps in clinical assessment, monitoring, and treatment follow-through
    • Reported delays in responding to assistance requests and applying fall-risk precautions
    • Reported inconsistencies in oxygen, blood-sugar, and respiratory-care routines
    • Reported incontinence-care and bathroom-cleanliness lapses
    • Limited meal and hydration assistance for residents with functional needs
    • Reported gaps in rehabilitation delivery
    • Concerns about staff responsiveness and communication tone
    • Unwelcoming front-desk communication

    Summary of reviews

    The comments present sharply differing experiences, and they may concern different Life Care locations. One visitor described welcoming interactions and compassionate, consistent staff and leadership across visits to multiple facilities, and another family praised the care their mother received. In contrast, one family described substantial concerns about clinical assessment, monitoring, timely assistance, fall-risk precautions, and follow-through on requested care. A separate family raised concerns following their mother's death three weeks after discharge, alongside disagreement with the facility's determination that skilled care was not needed; the review does not establish a connection between the discharge decision and her death.

    Staff feedback is similarly mixed: positive comments emphasize warmth and compassion, while negative comments describe limited responsiveness and an unsatisfactory communication tone, including at the reception desk. One account also described limited hands-on help at meals for a resident with difficulty feeding himself, along with concerns about access to fluids. No reviews provide meaningful information about food quality or menu variety. Reports of bathroom-cleanliness and incontinence-care lapses, as well as concerns about oxygen and other clinical routines, point to possible inconsistencies in day-to-day care at the location described.

    Rehabilitation delivery is a concern in one account, which stated that physical and occupational therapy were not provided. There is no substantive information about activities, social programming, or the quality of shared spaces beyond the reported cleanliness concerns. Management feedback includes praise for staff and leadership consistency, while the clinical-care concerns indicate that family communication and care coordination may not have met expectations in at least one case. Overall, the positive accounts describe warmth and compassionate care, but the more detailed critical accounts raise questions about clinical follow-through, responsiveness, and support for residents with complex needs; experiences should be assessed at the specific location under consideration.

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    Location

    Life Care Centers of America is located at 3570 Keith St NW, Cleveland, TN, 37312.

    About Life Care Centers of America

    Life Care Centers of America, sometimes called LCCAR, is a large, privately owned company that's been around since 1970 when Forrest Preston started it after opening the Garden Terrace Convalescent Center, and over the years, it's grown to be the third largest elderly care provider in the U.S., with more than 260 places across 28 states and thousands of beds for seniors who need help with daily life or medical care, and their main office sits in Cleveland, Tennessee, right on Keith Street at the Campbell Center, with a staff of over 38,000 people who work in different skilled nursing, rehabilitation, Alzheimer's, assisted living, and independent living centers. These facilities are designed so residents can get care for short-term rehab after surgery, long-term nursing, post-acute care, or help with conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia, and they have 24-hour skilled nursing care, on-site physicians, and even gyms for therapy services like inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, which sometimes use high-tech equipment like the AquaCiser underwater treadmill, plus many places also offer wound care, nutritional support, medication management, and have programs focused on specialized therapy or memory care, trying to provide personalized care plans for each resident or patient. The company's facilities are known for a focus on safety and infection control, which has been pretty important since Life Care Centers of America had some of the first COVID-19 outbreaks in the country, leading to strict protocols like confining residents to their rooms and ongoing efforts to get testing kits and medical personnel during health emergencies, and while they've faced some legal trouble in the past related to Medicare billing and occasional fines for outbreak response issues, they keep reporting every year and have a strong record of corporate compliance, with licenses in states like Tennessee, where their number is 0000015 and stays current till at least spring 2026. There's a corporate team led by Forrest Preston as CEO and Chairman, backed by business managers and a healthcare-focused executive team with people like Todd Fletcher, Steve Ziegler, and others who help run the company, and their staff includes doctors in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and internal medicine who see patients right in their facilities, which have well-maintained buildings and amenities designed for elderly care. Life Care Centers of America works with a system they call "Whatever It Takes And Then Some" to reward good work and encourage ideas or suggestions from staff, hoping to keep morale up and improve service, and they try to have a place for associates to grow careers with opportunities to learn or move up in the company, while longtime employees are offered recognition for their service. They hold an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and offer long-term insurance options, adult family homes, and care types ranging from home care to more intensive nursing home care, with locations spread out from regional offices in places like Massachusetts, Indiana, Colorado, Arizona, and Washington, all working under Judeo-Christian ethics in dealing with residents and coworkers, which they say is important for how everyone's treated each day. There's a steady effort to keep up quality and safety through risk management and ongoing quality improvement, and Life Care Centers of America's goal is to fit in with community healthcare by offering a full range of services, whether someone needs post-surgery rehab, help managing chronic illness, or a place to call home as they age, and although they've had their share of challenges like outbreaks or legal claims, they keep operating large numbers of centers and employ tens of thousands of people focused on elderly care and rehabilitation.

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