Nursing home
Life Care Center of Hendersonville
400 Thompson Street, Hendersonville, NC 28792 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Life Care Centers Of America (194 facilities) · 80 certified beds
Life Care Center of Hendersonville is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Hendersonville, North Carolina. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 2/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.71 hours per resident per day, below the North Carolina average of 3.78. Its most recent inspection on Aug 27, 2025 cited 5 deficiencies.
- 2 fines totaling $40,986In CMS records: 3 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
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 Hendersonville compares
This facility vs. the North Carolina and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | North Carolina avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.71 | 3.78 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.94 | 0.59 | 0.68 | above avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.73 | 2.33 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 65.3% | 50.4% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 5.0 | 5.6 | 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 August 27, 2025 inspection was corrected by September 18, 2025
Penalties in CMS records: 2 fines totaling $40,986, 3 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
What inspectors found at Life Care Center of Hendersonville
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
Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Aug 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Aug 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Aug 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure therapeutic diets are prescribed by the attending physician and may be delegated to a registered or licensed dietitian, to the extent allowed by State law.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Aug 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Minimal
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Aug 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Nov 22, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Nov 22, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Aug 22, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Aug 22, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Aug 22, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Minimal
Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Aug 22, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Actual harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 19, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
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
- 400 Thompson Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792 - CMS certification #
- 345463
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 80
- Avg residents/day
- 64.6
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1994-07-19
- 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 Hendersonville using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Nurse 24 hours a day, transportation
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2012
- Workplace safety 1 OSHA workplace safety inspection since 2017, 1 violation cited
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Life Care Center of Hendersonville says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
With a focus on inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation with 24-hour skilled nursing care, our in-house team of therapists and nurses works together to create individualized care plans for each of our patients and residents, so that we can focus on each individual's needs and goals.
(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.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for Sep 12, 2012 to Sep 11, 2014. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $1,533 owed to 16 employees. Civil money penalties assessed: $3,520. DOL marked the employer as a repeat violator. Employer as DOL recorded it: Life Care Center of Hendersonville (Hendersonville Medical Investors, LLC). Case 1728423.
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.
OSHA workplace safety inspections
OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.
- Dec 7, 2017: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (health). Case closed Jan 22, 2018. 1 violation cited (1 other). Penalties: $0 proposed, $0 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 136608 - Hendersonville Medical Investors, LLC.
Details
- Other than serious: Electrical wiring methods and equipment (1910.305(b)(1)(ii)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 26, 2017.
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
- Pardee Hospital Henderson County, Hendersonville. 1.9 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 5 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Carolina Village Inc, Hendersonville. 0.3 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Pardee Home Care, Flat Rock. 3.1 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 0.5 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 28792 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Hendersonville Dialysis Center, Hendersonville, 1.0 mile away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Arden Dialysis Center, Arden, 8.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 7 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 28792.
Four Seasons The Care You Trust, office in Flat Rock, 3.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of The Carolina Foothills, office in Saluda, 9.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Carepartners Hospice & Palliative Care Services, office in Asheville, 15.9 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Memorycare, Asheville. 11.9 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 moderate. By hazard: hurricane relatively low, inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire very low, tornado relatively high, earthquake relatively moderate. 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 | 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 Hendersonville a good nursing home?
CMS gives Life Care Center of Hendersonville an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 2/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Life Care Center of Hendersonville staffed?
Life Care Center of Hendersonville reports 3.71 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the North Carolina average of 3.78.
Has Life Care Center of Hendersonville had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 5 deficiencies.
How many beds does Life Care Center of Hendersonville have?
Life Care Center of Hendersonville is certified for 80 beds.