Aperion Care Marseilles

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category scores gave us anything to write home about. Its best category is nursing, but even there it received just a D. There are a host of factors included in this category. Many of these subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this nursing home received an F for its inspection grade. This is a very important category. Grades in this range typically point to some red flags on the facility's government inspection reports. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was assessed 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also need to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically signifies that a facility'sbad performance spanned several years.

This facility ended up receiving a an abysmal score in our long-term care category. It received an F in this category. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 92.5 percent of its patients, which is a few points lower than we were hoping for. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

The final category we rated is short-term care, where this nursing home received a very poor grade here as well. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is obviously very concerning. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. With its poor rating in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this facility offers far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.7 percent of its residents returning home.