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Brickyard Healthcare - LaPorte Care Center provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation services to residents throughout LaPorte, Indiana. Our dedicated team focuses on recovery and regaining independence through personalized care plans and evidence-based therapies in a supportive environment.
Capacity
87 residents
Location
La Porte, IN
Status
Listed in a public registry
1700 I STREET, La Porte, Indiana 46350
From CMS Care Compare, the federal record every Medicare-certified nursing home is held to. Data as of September 1, 2026. Check it on Medicare.gov
At its most recent standard inspection, on May 15, 2026, state inspectors cited 9 health deficiencies (the Indiana average is 7.2).
Nurses and nurse aides spend 3 hours 25 minutes with each resident a day, below the Indiana average of 3 hours 41 minutes.
Medicare has not fined Brickyard Healthcare - Laporte Care Center in the last three years.
| Measure | This home |
|---|---|
| Nurse and aide time per resident, per day | 3 hours 25 minutesBelow the Indiana average |
| Registered nurse time per resident, per day | 52 minutesAbove the Indiana average |
| Nursing staff who left in the past year | 28%Below the Indiana average |
2 administrators have left the home in the past year.
34 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
May 15, 2026 · Standard inspection · 9 citations
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident's ability to function.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Keep all essential equipment working safely.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
April 4, 2025 · Standard inspection · 16 citations
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
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.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Provide appropriate foot care.
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.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
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.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Ensure that nurse aides who have worked more than 4 months, are trained and competent; and nurse aides who have worked less than 4 months are enrolled in appropriate training.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
1700 I STREETLa Porte, IN 46350
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State inspectors visited on May 15, 2026 and cited 9 health deficiencies, 1 of them from complaint investigations. The Indiana average is 7.2.
Nurses and aides spend 3 hours 25 minutes with each resident per day, including 52 minutes from registered nurses. 28% of nursing staff left over the past year.
Medicare's records show no fines against Brickyard Healthcare - Laporte Care Center in the last three years.
Medicare covers up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period after a qualifying 3-day hospital stay — fully for the first 20 days, then with a daily copay. Long-term custodial stays are generally not covered.
A semi-private room averages about $7,900 per month nationally; private rooms cost more. Medicaid is the largest payer for long-term nursing home care.
Medicare rates nursing homes 1 to 5 stars on its Care Compare site. We don't repeat those stars here. Each nursing home page shows Medicare's underlying record instead: inspections, staffing and fines, with a link to check it on Medicare.gov.