St. Petersburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

I am writing this review for a dear friend was at this center for three weeks. She dictated to me. She never missed any physical therapy appointments and scored 99% on the machines. I'm 80 years old and very high functioning. The nursing staff was horrible to me. They messed up my medication everyday. They simply don't care. I rarely slept the whole time I was there. They did not listen to me at all. I don't remember ever seeing a doctor but was told by a family member I had seen him once. He cut all my medication in half the first night I was there. It was dirty, and smelled like urine. My room mate and I had no bathroom so we had to use other residents bathrooms which were dirty. There was a large cockroach in the bathroom I had to use. I was supposed to be released after two weeks but was held against my will for an additional week. I will not ever return to this facility ever again.

This place has few good attributes from a resident perspective. The food is ok and the therapy is good. The care is mediocre, when you press the button for assistance (if it is working right) it will take up to 30 minutes.for someone to respond (actually happened to me) please know your medications because your nurse may not be reliable. Just last night my nurse failed to give me my medication correctly. They may deny it but I experienced it. When I expressed my concerns after only three days of residency I got lots of apologies. Some improvements but did this need to happen in the first place is my question? FYI I have private insurance.

I have been a nurse for 15 years and I have never seen such horrors as when my father was briefly admitted to this sorry excuse for a nursing and rehab facility. For starters, the moment you walk in it reeks of ammonia and human waste. One of the most concerning things that occurred within the first 24 hours was the facility placing a PICC line (an invasive and consented procedure) into my father whom already had a semipermanent central line placed prior to his admission. They never bothered to assess him upon arrival or they'd have seen it. They certainly saw both lines during the xray for placement conformation and never bothered to call to disclose their error. I left town for 22 hours and returned to find the line placed. What's maybe worse is that the staff called me upon admission stating I needed to give verbal consent for vaccines and treatment due to the encephalopathy my father was experiencing, but they somehoe felt it was appropriate to allow him to consent himself for this invasive procedure.