Aperion Care Elgin

Aperion Care Elgin is an average-sized nursing home located in Elgin, Illinois. This nursing home received an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a lower end rating. This place has very little going for it. In spite of all this, this facility surprisingly performed well in our inspections category, which you can read more about below.

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility averaged a meager 2.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's second least favorable score was long-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinates 96.892654 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was not nearly as favorable. We found that this facility had 2.18 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility really didn't fare well in this area either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Our short-term care grades are critical for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Given its abysmal score in this area, we were not shocked to discover this facility offers far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 26.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.