Life Care Center of Burlington

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Life Care Center of Burlington says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Has a separate memory care unit, wing or neighborhood. Featuring a secured dementia care unit, we can provide highly skilled care in a safe environment. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. Focusing on inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation with 24-hour skilled nursing care, Life Care Center of Burlington's in-house team of therapists and nurses combines their passion and care to care for each resident and patient. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Provides transportation. Transportation services (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Smoke-free. Non-smoking facility (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Staff pay and workplace safety

Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.

OSHA workplace safety inspections

OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.

• Aug 22, 2016: referral inspection, partial (safety). Case closed Dec 1, 2016. 1 violation cited (1 serious). Penalties: $8,730 proposed, $8,730 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Life Care Center of Burlington.
  Details

  • Serious: Lockout of equipment during maintenance (1910.147(c)(4)(i)). Penalty $8,730 proposed, $8,730 now. To be fixed by Oct 27, 2016.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Coffey County Hospital, Burlington. 0.4 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Medicalodges Iola, Iola. 26.6 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Home Town Health Care, Burlington. 3.8 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

The Medicine Shoppe. 0.4 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 66839 as rural (rural area).

Hospice

5 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 66839.

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Janell Jones, MD, Garnett. 27.2 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.

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 high. By hazard: inland flooding relatively high, wildfire relatively low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively high, earthquake relatively 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.