Aperion Care Elgin

While we were not high on this facility's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that have a long list of deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's second most favorable category was short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a C. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. Our nursing rating is based on several subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This place provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a relatively low total compared to most facilities. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The last category we scored was long-term care, which ended up being this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 48.407642 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.