Aperion Care Tolleston Park

Aperion Care Tolleston Park is a large government-owned facility in Gary, Indiana. With a really poor overall grade of F, this facility didn't fare well in our assessment. Unfortunately, the city grade for Gary is not too much better. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

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. We believe that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This place had 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates that it dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. Finally, they also received 30 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is certainly not a great sign.

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's low-end long-term care score where it was given an F. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.25187 percent of its residents. We were far less impressed with its hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 4.47 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is more than twice the national average. This is certainly a concerning statistic.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing score includes a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This place provided a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this metric.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. This facility was given a poor grade of F in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. As you might expect, we learned that this place provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 23.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.