Life Care Center Of Charleston is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1994-02-02. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (843) 764-3500 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Life Care Center Of Charleston holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 3 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (2★), Staffing (2★), and Quality of Resident Care (5★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 77.7/100, placing it #4691 of 14703 facilities nationally and #68 of 187 in South Carolina. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Life Care Center Of Charleston receives a reported average of 3 hours 22 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 30 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 1 hour 2 minutes; Nurse Aide — 1 hour 50 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 3 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 2 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 49.2%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 2 fine(s) totaling $24,247. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 2 fine(s) totaling $24,247, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 2. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 57.75 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Life Care Center Of Charleston ranks 4691st out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 77.7/100), placing it in the above average nationwide. Within SC, it ranks 68th out of 187 nursing homes. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 1st of 2. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #10,364 nationally and RN hours rank #8,633 nationally (#95 in SC). Our composite quality score of 77.7/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in N Charleston, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/south_carolina/n-charleston/