Nursing Homes in Petersburg, Indiana

Petersburg, Indiana is a medium size city with 6,021 people. It has just 2 nursing homes, which does not offer you too many options to choose from. We gave this relatively small group of nursing homes a city grade of B, which is a good rating. By way of comparison, we awarded the nursing homes in the local city of Newburgh a city grade of B-, which is also a respectable grade. Nevertheless, we found the facilities in Petersburg to be a better than the ones in Newburgh. The best aspect of Petersburg's impressive report card was its nursing homes' inspection ratings. We discuss inspections in the next section

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, most of the facilities in Petersburg performed remarkably well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded its facilities an A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. In addition, Petersburg earned a grade of B+ for our short-term care category. In the last two categories, the city earned a B in our nursing category and a C in long-term care.