Aperion Care Morton Villa

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of C. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were category G through L deficiencies. This means this facility avoided the more significant classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

This facility's second best category is short-term care, but it nevertheless received just a D in that area. This turns out to be a relatively poor score. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Given its score in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this facility received a grade of just D in that category. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 97.75281 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home really did not fare very well in this category either. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is about as terrible as it gets. The nursing grade assesses a handful of components, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.