North Rehabilitation Center
1301 16th St N, Saint Petersburg FL 33705 · (727) 822-3171 · 95.55% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
North Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Featuring an overall score of B-, this is a solid facility. The facilities in Saint Petersburg received quality grades across the board with a city grade of a B. The best part of this nursing home's profile was is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 45 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, with an A in this area. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. It fared better than most facilities in the country with 50.6 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this facility an B+. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which was above average. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls which lead to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in the nation. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
Next we looked at this facility's inspection rating This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Surprisingly, this facility had a category J through K deficiency, which are some of the worst deficiencies. This usually tells you that inspectors uncovered a deficiency which placed resident safety or health in imminent jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated is long-term care, which ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. Naturally, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 98.611115 percent of its residents. These marks are obviously more favorable than some of its other marks in this category. To our surprise, this nursing home also was not as bad as we expected at keeping its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.24 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not bad since it had some more complex patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
North Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many believe this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better