Nursing home · Top rated by CMS
Life Care Center of Pensacola
3291 East Olive Rd, Pensacola, FL 32514 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Life Care Centers Of America (194 facilities) · 120 certified beds
Life Care Center of Pensacola is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Pensacola, Florida. CMS rates it 5 out of 5 stars overall (4/5 for staffing, 5/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.83 hours per resident per day, below the Florida average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Sep 10, 2025 cited 1 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Life Care Center of Pensacola compares
This facility vs. the Florida and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Florida avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.83 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.86 | 0.73 | 0.68 | above avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.24 | 2.34 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 48.4% | 42.3% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 1.0 | 7.3 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
- Every deficiency from the September 10, 2025 inspection was corrected by October 27, 2025
What inspectors found at Life Care Center of Pensacola
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Sep 10, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Oct 2, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Mar 30, 2023
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 3291 East Olive Rd
Pensacola, FL 32514 - CMS certification #
- 106073
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 120
- Avg residents/day
- 111.9
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 2006-07-12
- Chain
- Life Care Centers Of America (194 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Life Care Centers Of America
Life Care Centers Of America operates 194 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Life Care Centers Of America facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Life Care Center of Pensacola using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Nurse 24 hours a day, transportation
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2006
- Emergency Generator: fully implemented permanent generator (Florida AHCA)
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Life Care Center of Pensacola says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for Jun 1, 2006 to Aug 2, 2007. Violations found: Fair Labor Standards Act (pay and hours). Employer as DOL recorded it: Life Care Center of Pensacola (Life Care Center of America, Inc). Case 1487073.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Hca Florida West Hospital, Pensacola. 1.2 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Olive Branch Health and Rehabilitation Center, Pensacola. 1.5 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Medi Home Health Agency, Pensacola. 1.2 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walmart Pharmacy. 0.9 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 32514 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita West Florida Dialysis, Pensacola, 1.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars)
Rcg - Sacred Heart - Adult Dialysis, Pensacola, 2.4 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Rcg - Baptist North, Pensacola, 3.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 5 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 32514.
Gentiva I, office in Pensacola, 1.8 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Peoples Hospice And Palliative Care Of Florida LLC, office in Pensacola, 6.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Megumi Maguchi Aldrete, MD, Pensacola. 1.8 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Emergency power
- Fully Implemented Permanent Generator. (Florida AHCA generator status, as of Oct 15, 2026)
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively moderate. By hazard: hurricane relatively high, inland flooding relatively low, wildfire very low, tornado relatively low, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake very low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Hotels and Restaurants kitchen inspections | Oct 15, 2026 | No kitchen matched |
| Florida AHCA generator status | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | Not in a mapped zone | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Life Care Center of Pensacola a good nursing home?
CMS gives Life Care Center of Pensacola an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars, including 4/5 for staffing and 5/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Life Care Center of Pensacola staffed?
Life Care Center of Pensacola reports 3.83 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Florida average of 3.86.
Has Life Care Center of Pensacola had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 1 deficiencies.
How many beds does Life Care Center of Pensacola have?
Life Care Center of Pensacola is certified for 120 beds.