Aperion Care Midlothian

Although we did not rate this nursing home 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. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home received just a D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being its second best grade. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is typically a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation. With its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this place is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. Nursing scores are primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's worst area was long-term care, which is the final category we scored. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of D. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.14286 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.