Aperion Care Morton Villa

We just could not find anything positive to say about this facility. It received a lowly D for short-term care. Unfortunately, this turned out to be its best category. Short-term care grades are important for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its poor rating in this area, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home offers far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's inspection score where it received an F. This usually means we found some red flags on its inspection reports. With places that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 17 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our last category, this facility did not perform well here either. With a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Nursing homes that do not score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated only 76.68919 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.