Aperion Care Capitol is one of six facilities in Springfield, Illinois. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. Based on our assessment, this facility probably isn't a good fit for any prospective resident. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Aperion Care Capitol
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this place a terrible overall score, we awarded it a B for our inspections category. This is the result of the facility receiving a decent inspection report this year. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 7 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.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home ended up receiving a an abysmal grade in our long-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated just 51.82073 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. There are many subcategories included in this grade. Most of these subcategories reflect levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the final area, this facility did not fare well here either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Aperion Care Capitol Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Aperion Care Capitol, 8.76% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Aperion Care Capitol, 0.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure measures the percentage of long-term residents who sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Aperion Care Capitol, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered from urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Aperion Care Capitol, 15.36% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Aperion Care Capitol, 22.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Aperion Care Capitol, 68.05% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Increased levels of depression may indicate lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Aperion Care Capitol, 73.03% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Aperion Care Capitol, 7.08% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Some experts would argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Aperion Care Capitol, 10.94% of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Aperion Care Capitol, 0.04 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Aperion Care Capitol, 10.94% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Aperion Care Capitol, 25.01% of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Aperion Care Capitol, 86.32% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation services.
Scores for Springfield, IL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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