Petersburg Healthcare Center
287 East South Boulevard, Petersburg VA 23805 · (804) 733-1190 · 94.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Petersburg Healthcare Center is a facility located in Petersburg, Virginia, a city with a population of 60,032 people. Our scoring system was not very kind to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall score of F. Petersburg received a city grade of B-, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. Finally, inspections was the lone shining light in this nursing home's profile. We provide more information on this category below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this facility a poor overall score, we gave it a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. This is the result of the facility receiving a decent government inspection report this year. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that have a long list of severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Nurse Quality
This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Nursing scores are largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility offered just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.
Short-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this facility's next highest score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared somewhat poorly. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 41.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we looked at is long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We gave this facility a D in that area. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.29078 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was far less favorable. Here we found that this place had 2.65 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a concerning rate.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Petersburg Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit 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 datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better