Overview
Life Care Center of Blount County has a Medicare overall rating of 3 out of 5, in line with the Tennessee average of 3.1. It is the only Medicare-rated nursing home in Louisville. Its strongest area is quality of care (5 of 5), and its weakest is health inspections (2 of 5).
Residents receive about 3.8 hours of nursing care per day, more than at 58% of nursing homes in Tennessee (the state average is 3.8 hours). Of that, 1.0 hours come from registered nurses.
Its most recent standard inspection, on July 1, 2026, found 3 health deficiencies, fewer than the Tennessee average of 4.3. Medicare records 1 fine totaling $8,018 in the past three years.
Life Care Center of Blount County is a for-profit facility with 120 certified beds, caring for about 97 residents on an average day. It accepts Medicare and has participated since 2016.
Medicare ratings
- Health inspections
- Quality of care
- Staffing
Source: Medicare Care Compare, data as of October 1, 2026.
How it compares nearby
Ranked by Medicare overall rating, then quality, inspection and staffing ratings.
Top 46%
Top 48%
Family reviews
- j. wolfeDecember 2022
I should have read the reviews before sending my father here. He would still be alive if I had. He was sent there to receive rehab for cellulitis in his leg. 5 days before he passed away, he was coughing up blood. Not just a small amount of blood, but a lot. We asked the nurse about it, and she said it was from thrush. The next day when we went to visit him, we asked if the bleeding had stopped, and we were told that she did not get in report that he was coughing up blood. That means that she had not laid eyes on him because he had an emesis basin and wash rags on his bed that were covered. We asked the nurses to get him a consult for GI, Pulmonary, ENT, and cardiology. We were told that he would have to do that outpatient instead of seeing that he needed to be sent back to the hospital. He was in a lot of pain, and they made him feel like he was lazy because he was so weak, he could not do the physical therapy. He was not able to eat. He was barely able to drink. They did not send him back to the hospital until it was too late. He died less than 24 hours later.
Inspections and penalties
- Most recent standard inspection
- July 1, 2026
- Health deficiencies cited
- 3
- Complaint-related deficiencies
- 0
- Fines in the last 3 years
- 1 totaling $8,018
- Payment denials
- 0
- Total penalties
- 1
Staffing
Average hours of care each resident receives per day.
- All nursing staff3.76 hrs
- Registered nurses (RN)0.98 hrs
- Licensed practical nurses (LPN)1.12 hrs
- Nurse aides1.66 hrs
- Physical therapists0.16 hrs
Facility details
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 120
- Average residents per day
- 97
- Participates in
- Medicare
- Medicare/Medicaid since
- January 14, 2016
- Inside a hospital
- No
- Continuing care retirement community
- No
- Changed ownership in last 12 months
- No
- Resident or family council
- Resident
- Sprinklers in all required areas
- Yes