• CMS rates this facility 5/5 stars (above average)
• Has 100 certified beds with an average of 88.5 residents per day (89% occupancy)
• Last health inspection found 7 deficiencies (inspected Nov 21, 2025)
• No fines on record
• Total nursing staff: 4.83 hours per resident per day
• Staff turnover rate: 50.4% (high)
• Part of the Life Care Centers of America chain (194 facilities)
Life Care Center of South Hill is a 5-star Medicare certified nursing home in Puyallup, Washington with 100 certified beds. It has been operating since 2015. The facility scored above average compared to Washington facilities.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
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.
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Plan the resident's discharge to meet the resident's goals and needs.
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
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.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
No penalties on record.
Staffing hours per resident per day. The black line shows the national average.
Quality measures as percentages of residents. Lower is better for all measures.
| Name | Role | Type | Ownership % | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRESTON, FORREST | 5% OR GREATER DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST | Individual | 99% | Jul 30, 2014 |
| DEVELOPERS INVESTMENT COMPANY INC | OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | Organization | N/A | Jul 30, 2014 |
| LIFE CARE CENTERS OF AMERICA, INC. | OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | Organization | N/A | Dec 15, 2014 |
| BUTNER, NANCY | OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | Individual | N/A | Sep 16, 2018 |
| FLETCHER, TODD | OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | Individual | N/A | Dec 13, 2024 |
| MEDINA, ALEXANDER | OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | Individual | N/A | Apr 4, 2022 |
| PRESTON, AUBREY | OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | Individual | N/A | Dec 13, 2024 |
| SCHMITZ, BRADLEY | OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | Individual | N/A | Nov 15, 2021 |
| SUWANEH, ALHAJI | OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | Individual | N/A | Nov 18, 2023 |
| ZIEGLER, JAMES | OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | Individual | N/A | Dec 13, 2024 |
| CROSS, CINDY | CORPORATE OFFICER | Individual | N/A | Dec 15, 2014 |
| HENRY, TERRY | CORPORATE OFFICER | Individual | N/A | Aug 16, 1999 |
| LAY, LISA | CORPORATE OFFICER | Individual | N/A | Feb 9, 2018 |
| SWANKER, RICHARD | CORPORATE OFFICER | Individual | N/A | Apr 1, 2011 |
| THURMOND, JOAN | CORPORATE OFFICER | Individual | N/A | Jul 30, 2014 |
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