Aperion Care Tolleston Park
2350 Taft St, Gary IN 46404 · (219) 977-2600 · 58.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
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.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
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Government - City/county
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Aperion Care Tolleston Park Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients who experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better