Nursing home
Life Care Center of Elkhorn
20275 Hopper Street, Elkhorn, NE 68022 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of Life Care Centers Of America (194 facilities) · 135 certified beds
Life Care Center of Elkhorn is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Elkhorn, Nebraska. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.64 hours per resident per day, below the Nebraska average of 4.17. Its most recent inspection on Dec 8, 2025 cited 19 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 Elkhorn compares
This facility vs. the Nebraska and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Nebraska avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.64 | 4.17 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.55 | 0.71 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.24 | 2.76 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 39.3% | 49.3% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 19.0 | 6.7 | 9.5 | above 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.
Penalties in CMS records: 1 total penalty, 1 Medicare payment denial.
What inspectors found at Life Care Center of Elkhorn
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
Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Dec 8, 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 · Dec 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Dec 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Have enough outside ventilation via a window or mechanical ventilation, or both.
Environmental Deficiencies · Dec 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Dec 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Dec 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Give residents a notice of rights, rules, services and charges.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Dec 8, 2025 · 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 · Dec 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide care or services that was trauma informed and/or culturally competent.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Dec 8, 2025 · 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
- 20275 Hopper Street
Elkhorn, NE 68022 - CMS certification #
- 285134
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 135
- Avg residents/day
- 93.7
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1993-09-17
- 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 →
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Location and nearby
Explore the area around Life Care Center of Elkhorn using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Nurse 24 hours a day, transportation
- Workplace safety 2 OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2020, 2 violations cited
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Life Care Center of Elkhorn 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.
Focusing on inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation with 24-hour skilled nursing care, Life Care Center of Elkhorn offers a specific program for patients with Parkinson's disease providing treatment through therapist certifications in Lee Silverman Voice Treatment BIG
(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.
DOL also concluded 1 case here with no violations found, most recently for a period ending Jul 26, 2018.
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.
- Sep 5, 2023: complaint inspection, partial (health). Case closed Sep 20, 2023. No violations cited. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Consolidated Resources Health Care Fund I, L.p.,. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
- May 19, 2020: referral inspection, partial (health). Case closed Jan 22, 2021. 2 violations cited (2 serious). Penalties: $13,494 proposed, $13,494 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Consolidated Resources Health Care Fund I, L.p.,. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
Details
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(e)(1)). Penalty $13,494 proposed, $13,494 now. To be fixed by Dec 7, 2020.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 7, 2020.
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
- Chi Health Lakeside, Omaha. 4.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, Elkhorn. 2.5 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Brookestone Home Health Care, Elkhorn. 2.5 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- U-Save Pharmacy. 1.5 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 68022 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fresenius Kidney Care Omaha West, Omaha, 4.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Omaha Home Training, Omaha, 6.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Davita Omaha West Dialysis, Omaha, 6.2 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 16 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 68022.
Peaceful Hearts Hospice, LLC, office in Elkhorn, 1.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Oncare Hospice, LLC, office in Omaha, 4.3 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Tabitha Hospice-A Collaboration With Immanuel, office in Omaha, 7.3 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Unmc Physicians, Omaha. 4.2 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 moderate. By hazard: inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire relatively low, tornado very high, 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 | See above |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here relatively 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 Elkhorn a good nursing home?
CMS gives Life Care Center of Elkhorn an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 1/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Life Care Center of Elkhorn staffed?
Life Care Center of Elkhorn reports 3.64 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Nebraska average of 4.17.
Has Life Care Center of Elkhorn had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 19 deficiencies.
How many beds does Life Care Center of Elkhorn have?
Life Care Center of Elkhorn is certified for 135 beds.