Aperion Care Springfield

Although we gave this place a terrible overall score, we gave it a B+ for our inspections category. This is the result of the facility receiving a quality government inspection report this year. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's second most favorable category is long-term care, but it nevertheless received a grade of just D in that area. This still happens to be a relatively poor score. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

This nursing home's second lowest score is short-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a well below average score. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most critical for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we found that this nursing home offers substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to 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 figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The next area we assessed is nursing. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in that area. Our nursing grade includes several components, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home offered just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This number is far below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.