Extended care hospitals (except mental, substance abuse) · Indiana

Life Care Center of the Willows

Valparaiso, IN · ~109 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Life Care Center of the Willows runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Extended care hospitals (except mental, substance abuse) workplace, earning a grade F.

Life Care Center of the Willows: 8.3 TCR = 219% of Extended care hospitals (except mental, substance abuse) BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Life Care Center of the Willows safety composite

Life Care Center of the Willows scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Life Care Center of the Willows: 5.6 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 28.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2024

Life Care Center of the Willows's TCR rose 0.7 from 5.6 in 2019 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 28.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · Valparaiso, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 219% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #33/45
  • PHOTO Madonna Rehab Hospit…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Madonna Rehab Hospital-Omaha (0.0 TCR gap)

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Life Care Center of the Willows in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Life Care Center of the Willows averages 8.3 TCR (219% of the Extended care hospitals (except mental, substance abuse) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Life Care Center of the Willows TCR series: 2019=5.6 · 2020=28.1 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Life Care Center of the Willows falls in its industry

1,390 Extended care hospitals (excep establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 45 Extended care hospitals (excep employers in Indiana.

Life Care Center of the Willows (109 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Life Care Center of the Willows
Life Care Center of the Willows (109 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Life Care Center of the Willows has fewer employees than the Extended care hospitals (except mental, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 6.3 4.7 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2020 28.1 28.1 2 16 0
2019 5.6 5.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · IN · Valparaiso

1,390 Extended care hospitals (except mental, substance abuse) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 122 employers in Valparaiso, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Madonna Rehab Hospital-Omaha 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HealthSouth Sea Pines Rehab Hospital 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KPC Promise Hospital of Wichita Falls 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Muncie Svc Ctr 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE 605-NiSource-Fort Wayne IN-Operating HQ 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Starcon @ BP Whiting 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Porter Hospital LLC 1,509 FTE
CITY-NEAR PORTER REGIONAL HOSPITAL 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR Opportunity Enterprises, Inc. 635 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Valparaiso 411 FTE
NAT-TCR 0203 - Chula Vista Broadway 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Market-St Paul 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 020m - Las Vegas Nv Rntl 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Renaissance - Marinette 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hispanic Markets Inc. 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex Materials 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daytona Dc 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arway Apron & Uniform Rental Inc 109 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.