Aperion Care Spring Valley

On top of receiving a poor overall grade, we also awarded this facility poor scores in the various categories. It only received a D for its inspections grade, which was its best area. Our inspection scores factor in many items on the facility's recent inspection reports. When you see severe deficiencies on the reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

This nursing home ended up receiving a a terrible score in our long-term care category. It received an F in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this facility administered the vaccine to a relatively low 62.046207 percent of its residents, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Our next category we assessed is short-term care, in which this facility was given an F. Our short-term care scores are important for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The next category we looked at was nursing. We gave it an F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. There are a host of data points included in this area. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.