Boca Ciega Center

Boca Ciega Center is located in Saint Petersburg, Florida, which is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. We awarded this nursing home an overall rating of B, making it ranked among the fifteen best facilities nursing homes in the city. Even with Saint Petersburg offering 27 other nursing homes to select from, this one looks like a perfectly acceptable option. Fortunately, this place didn't have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in that category. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing score is primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home was given a strong long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better grades in that area with a grade of B. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 3.7 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this area, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of residents.

The next area we rated was short-term care. We awarded it a C in that category. This is a decent grade in this area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 22.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.