Aperion Care Evanston

Aperion Care Evanston is in Evanston, Illinois, a city with 79,009 people. With an overall grade of D, this is a relatively poor nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's relatively poor overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are six other nursing homes in Evanston. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's second most favorable category turned out to be long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 95.30516 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.85 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this figure is somewhat concerning, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. There are a variety of factors within this grade. Most of the criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered a meager 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also looked at some quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility was above average in two of the major metrics we focus on, with good scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we rated was short-term care, in which this nursing home received an abysmal grade in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously a major concern. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly based on its grade in this category, this facility was well below average in one of the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 19.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.