Aperion Care Bridgeport

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections category. This grade is much better than the facility's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, while this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this subcategory.

This nursing home was awarded its third most favorable category grade in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. In forming our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The important question is whether this also impacted quality of care. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Moving on to our last category, this facility did not fare well in this category either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care may not provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities offer. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 52.263374 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is several points lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.