Brickyard Healthcare – Petersburg Care Center

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility received high grades in our nursing category as well. It received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of B-. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, while this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this area.

The next category we looked at is short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B- in this area. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is generally a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The final category we looked at is long-term care, which was this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in that category. Of course, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 51.677853 percent of its residents. This is quite a bit lower than average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.