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St. Pete Nursing Home's License In Jeopardy

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By ROD CHALLENGER

News Channel 8

Published: November 25, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - State officials are taking steps to revoke the license of a nursing home here, maintaining it does not meet various standards of care.

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has not issued a deadline for Long Term Care of St. Petersburg to close. But the agency has ordered the nursing home to begin evaluating patients at the facility, at 3479 54th Ave. N., to determine types of facilities suitable for their placement.

Derrick Webster, acting director of the nursing home, said he is appealing the decision, but agency officials say they have no record of an appeal being filed.

Webster said the nursing home has 103 patients.

The agency has told the nursing home not to accept new patients, the second time it has taken such action in the past 2 1/2 years.

The agency cited deficiencies including incidents of patients not receiving prescribed medications and controlled substances not being properly secured.

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