Aperion Care Elgin

It should also be noted that this nursing home's inspection grade outpaced its overall score. In fact, we awarded it a B for its inspections grade, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is generally a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This place provides only 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. While this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

Switching gears to the fourth category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D in long-term care. This was the nursing home's worst category score. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 63.664597 percent of its patients. This is several points less than what we expected. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.