Aperion Care Midlothian

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it performed pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility's second most respectable score was long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.899055 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable datapoint. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Sadly, this facility only received a D for its short-term care grade, which is well below average in this category. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. 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 nursing home's weakest area is nursing, which is the final category we analyzed. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. We looked at the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.