Aperion Care St Elmo

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Aperion Care St Elmo's website

221 East Cumberland,
Saint Elmo IL 62458

(618) 829-5551

83% estimated occupancy ¹

Aperion Care St Elmo is a small nursing home located in Saint Elmo, Illinois. With an overall score of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel nursing home. Based on our analysis, this nursing home is not a fit for any prospective resident. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Palliative Care
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Pain Management
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with too many severe deficiencies flagged. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's unfortunate long-term care grade where it was given a lowly F. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 34.782608 percent of its residents. This is many points lower than the national average. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

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Nurse Quality

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Short-term Care Quality

The last category we looked at is short-term care, where this facility received a poor score here also. It received a lowly F in this category, which is definitely a major concern. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is frequently a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. With a grade this poor in this area, we weren't shocked to discover that this nursing home was below average in several staffing areas we assess. It offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Aperion Care St Elmo Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 8.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients which developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents that experienced falls which resulted in serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric could also be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 18.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 19.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This measures the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 30.45% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 87.4% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 13.9% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 17.56% Percentage of Residents

This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 1.66 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 17.56 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Aperion Care St Elmo, 11.82 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Nearby Hospitals

St Anthonys Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.37 miles away503 N Maple Street Effingham Illinois 62401Voluntary non-profit - Church(217) 342-2121

Nearby Dialysis

Davita - Vandalia Dialysis15.96 miles away301 Mattes Road Vandalia Illinois 62471Dialysis Stations: 8 (618) 283-1366
Davita - Effingham Dialysis17.32 miles away904 Medical Park Drive, Suite 1 Effingham Illinois 62401Dialysis Stations: 16 (217) 342-9558