Petersburg Medical Center

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility earned near flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outpaced most nursing homes in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 94.5946 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility also was awarded a strong short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grades are vital for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final category we graded was nursing. In this area, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. This is this nursing home's worst area. The nursing score includes many data points, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provides only 0 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below the national average. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.