Aperion Care Forest Park

With an address in Forest Park, Illinois, Aperion Care Forest Park is the sole nursing home we were able to find in the city. This facility was given an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to avoid of this nursing home. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our short-term care rating. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This facility provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is definitely a very favorable sign. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. It performed decently in this area, with 45.7 percent of its residents returning home.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Our nursing rating analyzes many components, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides only 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

This nursing home really didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. We gave it a C for that category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place had 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you it avoided the more ominous classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

The last area we assessed was long-term care. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated only 90.89253 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home fared poorly with 2.77 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, this figure is nearly double the national average.