Aperion Care - Morton Villa

We really could not find anything positive to say about this facility. It received just a D in the area of short-term care. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return 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.

In our next category, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the category of long-term care. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated only 49.027233 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

We also wanted to point out this facility's inspection rating where it received an F. This typically means we found red flags on the government inspections. For places with bad inspection grades, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility is classified as a special focus facility by CMS. This generally means the facility exhibited substandard patient care over the course of multiple government inspections. We would strongly advise you to avoid any facility with this classification.

The final area we looked at was nursing, in which this facility was given a rock bottom grade in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. There are many factors within this category. Many of the subcategories are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this facility had really bad scores in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients sustaining falls which led to serious injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.