Life Care Center Of Hixson

Location & what’s nearby

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Nearest of each type, straight-line distance. Hospitals come from the CMS Hospital General Information registry; everything else from Overture Maps (public data). Hospital and park hours are typical — call ahead to confirm.

Quality measures — how residents actually fare

Quality-measure stars summarize outcomes CMS tracks from the assessments each home submits — avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits, falls with injury, pressure ulcers, unplanned weight loss, and long-term antipsychotic use. Because the underlying data is self-reported, weigh a high score against the independent inspection record. Long-stay = permanent residents; short-stay = rehab and post-hospital stays.

Short-stay rehab — if you are coming here from a hospital

Arriving from a hospital right now? Read the discharge guide → — your appeal rights, how to slow a rushed discharge, and what to ask about the numbers below.

66.9% of the Medicare patients who left this home got back to the community and stayed there for at least 31 days — CMS rates that better than the national rate. This is CMS’s risk-adjusted rate over 309 Medicare stays in Oct 2022–Sep 2024, and CMS’s own comparison — not ours.

Met the expected recovery: 70.5% of this home’s Medicare short-stay residents left it at or above the ability to care for themselves and move around that CMS predicted for them, across 61 stays in Oct 2024–Sep 2025. The median of the 11,061 homes CMS publishes this for is 56.6%. Read it beside the getting-home figure, not instead of it: unlike the two measures above, CMS makes no better-or-worse call on this one and publishes no confidence interval for it, so this is a comparison and not a verdict — but it is the short-stay measure that separates homes most, and the one to ask about.

Therapy staffing: this home’s payroll records show 1.06 therapist hours per resident per day in 2026Q1 — more than 97% of the 13,892 homes that report any therapy hours at all.

Weekend therapy: weekend therapy hours are 6% of this home’s weekday level — it runs some therapy at the weekend, at a lower level than on weekdays. The median home that reports therapy runs 13% — weekday-focused therapy is the industry norm, not a shortfall. But recovery does not pause on a Saturday: ask what the weekend actually looks like here.

This section is about rehab stays, not living here. Most of this page — the stars, the quality measures, the inspection record — describes the home the way a permanent resident experiences it. These figures describe the short Medicare stay after a hospital discharge: a hip, a stroke, a bad infection, six weeks and home. They are different residents, different staff, often a different wing. Therapy hours are per resident in the building, not per rehab patient — the count includes every long-stay resident, and they mostly get no therapy at all. So a home with a small rehab wing inside a large nursing population reads low here even if its rehab patients get plenty of therapy, and a mostly-rehab home reads high. Use it to compare homes doing similar work, ask what a rehab resident actually gets in a day, and remember that CMS does not publish therapy minutes per patient — nobody does.

Staffing

How full it usually is: this home is certified for 108 beds and averages 84.9 residents a day — about 79% occupied, or roughly 23 beds typically open. It usually has some room. This is a CMS average, not live availability — no public source publishes real-time vacancies, and a home can be full the day you call. Confirm with the home, and if you need a Medicaid bed specifically, ask about that separately: a home with open beds may still not have an open Medicaid bed.

Against a benchmark — not a legal minimum. In May 2024 CMS finalized the first federal staffing floor for nursing homes: 3.48 total nurse hours per resident per day, including 0.55 RN hours and 2.45 nurse-aide hours. Its hour requirements never took effect and are no longer on the books. Homes had until 2026 (2027 if rural) to comply, and that deadline never arrived: a federal court vacated the hour requirements in April 2025 (CMS has appealed), Congress then barred enforcement until 2034, and CMS formally repealed them by rule effective February 2026. This home is not required to meet these numbers, and is not violating anything by missing them. We still show the comparison because the figures are CMS’s own published estimate of adequate staffing, which makes them a useful yardstick — but they are our benchmark, not federal law: this home’s total nurse staffing of 4.17 hrs/resident/day is at or above the 3.48-hour benchmark and RN staffing of 0.66 is at or above the 0.55-hour RN benchmark and nurse-aide staffing of 2.50 is at or above the 2.45-hour aide benchmark. What federal law does require today is unchanged: “sufficient” nursing staff for residents’ needs and an RN on duty at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week (42 CFR 483.35). Those are judged by inspectors on site, not by these averages, so read this comparison alongside the inspection record rather than as a pass/fail.

Weekend coverage: total nurse staffing is 3.64 hrs/resident/day on weekends vs 4.38 on weekdays — 17% thinner on weekends. RN hours go from 0.73 to 0.49 per resident-day. (Payroll-based daily records; the national median home is 15% thinner on weekends.)

This home’s total nursing-staff turnover of 44% is about the same as the national median of 45%.

Payroll-based (PBJ) staffing hours, as reported for Jan–Mar 2026 (CMS PBJ CY2026Q1) — the most recent quarter CMS has published, so they can lag a change of operator or staffing agency. Higher is generally better. Registered-nurse coverage and weekend staffing are the numbers families most often overlook — an RN on site matters most when something goes wrong, and coverage usually thins on weekends. High turnover means residents rarely see the same caregiver twice. One caveat: these are hours as reported, not adjusted for how sick or heavy-care this home’s residents are. CMS separately publishes a case-mix-adjusted view; we show the reported hours. A home caring for higher-acuity residents needs more hours to deliver the same care, so compare these figures against homes doing similar work, and read them next to the inspection record rather than alone.

Inspection trend

Deficiencies are unchanged from the previous inspection. Fewer citations over time suggests a home is fixing problems; a rising count is a warning sign — though two surveys are a short record, and survey teams differ. These counts are from the standard annual health survey only; the full citation list below may also include findings from complaint investigations, so the two won’t always add up.

Inspection deficiencies

State health-inspection citations, most serious first. Each carries an F-code (the federal rule it cites, e.g. F-684 = quality of care) and a letter A–L marking how serious and how widespread the problem was — we translate that grid into the plain tiers shown here. Wording is the official federal description.

Each letter is a CMS scope-severity level; highlighted ones are where this home has citations. A–C = no harm found; D–F = potential for harm; G–I = actual harm; J–L = immediate jeopardy. Within each band the later letter is the more widespread finding (an isolated G is one resident; a widespread I is a pattern), so rightward and downward is worse.

• Immediate jeopardy · J2026-05-02 · tag F0684 — failed to provide proper treatment and quality of care — isolated
  Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on interview, record review, document review, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) #1 did not operate outside the scope of a CNA when he flushed Resident #125's peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line (a PICC line is a long, thin, flexible tube inserted through a vein in the arm and threaded to a large vein near the heart. A PICC line provides long-term secure intravenous (IV) access for delivering medication, fluids, or nutrition, or for drawing blood, reducing the need for daily needle sticks). It was determined the facility's non-compliance with one or more requirements of participation had caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury, serious harm, serious impairment, or death to residents. The Immediate Jeopardy (IJ) was related to the State Operations Manual, Appendix PP, 483.25 F684, Quality of Care, at a scope and severity of J. The Immediate Jeopardy began on 04/27/2026. The IJ began on 04/27/2026 when CNA #1 flushed Resident #125's PICC line. The survey team notified the Executive Director (ED), the…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · F2026-05-02 · tag F0803 — failed to meet residents' dietary needs — widespread
  Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, and document review, the facility failed to follow the menu serving size for the turkey and dumpling entree for the lunch meal on 04/29/2026 for 76 of 83 residents who received food from the kitchen. Findings included: The facility Diet Type Report dated 05/01/2026, listed the diet order of 83 residents and of the 83 residents, one resident was ordered finger foods, one resident was ordered a vegetarian diet, one resident was ordered a full liquid diet, and four residents received nothing by mouth. The facility Diet SpreadSheet for the lunch meal indicated residents were to receive a #6 scoop of chicken and dumplings for the lunch meal on 04/29/2026. An undated facility document titled Scoop Chart indicated a #6 scoop held 5 ounces (oz) and a #12 scoop held 2.5 oz. During the lunch meal tray line observation on 04/29/2026 at11:31 AM, [NAME] #9 used a ladle to serve one portion of regular turkey and dumplings and a green-handled scoop to serve one portion of mechanically altered and pureed turkey and dumplings. During an interview on 04/29/2026 at…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2026-05-02 · tag F0554 — isolated
  Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, record review, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure 1 (Resident #81) of 25 sampled residents was assessed for their ability to self-administer their own medications. Findings included: A facility policy titled, Self-Administration of Medication, reviewed 09/15/2025, revealed, Procedure 1. If the resident desires to self-administer medication, the IDT [interdisciplinary team] will contact the resident's primary physician to make them aware of the resident request. 2. The IDT in consultation with the primary physician for the resident will conduct an assessment of the resident's cognitive, physical, and visual ability to carry out this responsibility. The policy specified, 4. The interdisciplinary assessment will be completed in the electronic medication record, and results review with the resident and/or responsible party. 5. After the IDT and primary physician review the assessment and determine the resident can safely self-administer, or self-administer and safely store medications at bedside, a physician's order will be…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Rights Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2026-05-02 · tag F0697 — failed to manage pain — isolated
  Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on interview, record review, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure staff administered as needed pain medication when requested for 1 (Resident #123) of 3 observed for medication administration. Findings included: A facility policy titled, Pain Assessment and Management, revised 11/11/2025, revealed, Based on the comprehensive assessment of a resident, this facility must ensure that residents receive the treatment and care in accordance with professional standards of practice, the comprehensive care plan, and the resident's choices related to pain management. An admission Record revealed the facility admitted Resident #123 on 04/22/2026. According to the admission Record, the resident had a medical history that included diagnoses of lung cancer and breast cancer. Resident #123's Care Plan Report included a focus area initiated 04/22/2026, that indicated the resident expressed pain/discomfort. Interventions directed staff to administer the resident's pain medications as ordered (initiated 04/22/2026). Resident #123's Order Summary Report, with active orders…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2022-10-12 · tag F0636 — isolated
  Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on review of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Version 3.0 Manual, record review, and interview the facility failed to complete a discharge Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment timely for 1 resident (Resident #2) of 18 residents reviewed for MDS assessments. The findings include: Review of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Long-Term Care Facility Resident Assessment Instrument 3.0 User's Manual, Version 1.17.1, dated October 2019, showed .Chapter 2: ASSESSMENTS FOR THE RESIDENT ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT (RAI) .Discharge assessment .Must be completed .within 14 days after the discharge date . Resident #2 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses including Deep Vein Thrombosis, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Hyponatremia, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Anxiety Disorder, and Depression. The resident was discharged from the facility on 7/12/2022. Record review revealed no documentation a discharge MDS assessment had been completed for Resident #2. During an interview on 10/12/2022 at 10:59…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2022-10-12 · tag F0641 — isolated
  Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on review of the Resident Assessment Instrument Manual 3.0 (RAI), medical record review, and interview, the facility failed to accurately complete a Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment for 1 resident (Resident #75) of 18 residents reviewed for MDS assessments. The findings include: Review of the RAI Manual 3.0 dated 10/2019 showed .the comprehensive assessment is considered complete on the date the RN [Registered Nurse] Coordinator indicates completion of the admission assessment .Assuming the resident does not have any significant changes in status or is not discharged from the facility the next assessment schedule is the Quarterly assessment . Resident #75 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] and readmitted on [DATE] with diagnoses including Alzheimer's Dementia, Type 2 Diabetes, Chronic Atrial Fibrillation. Diagnoses of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) was added on 9/16/2022. Review of a physician's progress note dated 9/16/2022 for Resident #75 showed a new diagnosis of PAD was added to Resident #75's…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2022-10-12 · tag F0689 — failed to keep residents free of avoidable accidents; supervise adequately — isolated
  Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on facility policy review, record review, observation, and interview, the facility failed to implement an intervention to prevent falls for 1 resident (Resident #70) of 3 residents reviewed for falls. The findings include: Review of the facility policy titled, Fall Management, reviewed 9/29/2022, showed .The facility will assess the resident .and will identify appropriate interventions to minimize the risk of injury related to falls .Implement interventions .consistent with a resident's .care plan .in order to eliminate the risk .reduce the risk of an accident .a care plan will be developed and initiated .on any residents assessed to be at risk for falls . Resident #70 was admitted to the facility on [DATE], and readmitted on [DATE], with diagnoses including Fracture of Unspecified Part of Neck of Left Femur, Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage, Unspecified Cirrhosis of Liver, History of Falling, Muscle Weakness (Generalized), Unspecified Dementia, and Macular Degeneration. Review of a comprehensive care plan…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2022-10-12 · tag F0842 — failed to keep accurate, complete medical records — isolated
  Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on facility policy review, medical record review, and interview, the facility failed to maintain accurate and complete medical records for 1 resident (Resident #43) of 24 residents reviewed for accuracy of medical records. The findings include: Review of the facility policy titled, Auditing and Monitoring of Medical Records, revised [DATE], showed .Auditing and monitoring of medical record documents is conducted to ensure medical records are complete and accurate and reflect current standards of documentation practices .Additional focused audits that may be done .may include, but are not limited to .Care plan .Audit for consistency between the MDS [minimum data set assessment] and the care plan .Monitor to ensure the care plan is current .Code Status . Audit for consistency between physician orders, advanced directives and any communication system for this that the facility might use . Resident #42 was admitted to the facility [DATE], with diagnoses including Dementia without Behavioral Disturbance, Type…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction

Fines & penalties

$22,205 in federal fines across 1 penalty.

• $22,205 — penalty dated 2026-05-02

Dates are the dates CMS records the penalty, not the date of the conduct behind it. CMS publishes penalties on a rolling window, so this is what is currently on the public file — not the home’s lifetime history, and an older fine may attach to a problem that has since been corrected. The amounts are as imposed: the CMS file does not record whether a penalty was appealed, reduced, or paid, so we don’t say. Ask the home what each one was for and what changed since.

Part of a chain

This home belongs to LIFE CARE CENTERS OF AMERICA — 194 facilities. Here is how its ratings compare with the chain’s average across all its homes: See the whole chain — ratings, flags, fines and finances →

A home rated well below its chain’s average can signal local problems; a chain with a low average across the board is a bigger pattern worth researching. CMS chain data under-reports private-equity and REIT ownership, so treat this as a floor, not the full picture.

Who owns this facility

CMS files one row per role, so the 21 rows in the source record cover these 14 parties — each is shown once here with every role it holds. Nothing is omitted. The source lists no ownership percentage for any of them — PECOS records a share only for equity interests, not for board or management roles.

1 organizational owner listed — a facility can be part of a larger chain. CMS ownership data is known to under-report private-equity and REIT ties; treat as a starting point.

Follow the money — this home’s finances

Where a nursing home’s revenue comes from and where it goes — including money paid to companies under the same ownership. Most consumer sites never show this; we reproduce it straight from the Medicare cost report.

This home reported $2.4M paid to related parties — landlords or management companies under common ownership — equal to about 19% of its total expenses. Money routed to affiliated companies can leave a home’s own books looking lean while owners still profit; it is the mechanism regulators watch most closely in private-equity and REIT deals.

Source: CMS Healthcare Provider Cost Reporting Information System (HCRIS), Medicare cost report Form CMS-2540 · fiscal year 2024. Facilities self-file these reports; figures are unaudited and a year or two behind. A home with no Medicare cost report on file shows no figures here.

Cost & finances

Straight from this home’s Medicare cost report (CMS, FY2024). These are its operating economics — what it costs to run per resident-day and what it collects on average across Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay — not a private-pay quote. Your out-of-pocket cost depends on payer and room type, so ask the facility directly; a higher operating cost can reflect richer staffing or a sicker population. The cost-of-care planner shows regional benchmarks by care type.

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