Aperion Care Bloomington

• Facility name: Aperion Care Bloomington
• Facility address: 1509 N Calhoun St, Bloomington, IL 61701
• Facility phone: (309) 827-6046

Aperion Care Bloomington is a medium sized, 115 bed “for profit” healthcare facility specializing in post-hospital recovery, offering physical, occupational, and speech therapy 7 days a week along with personalized day to day care “ensuring you have a comfortable healing experience while you recover and prepare to return home”. Levin & Perconti has uncovered facts that tell otherwise.

Aperion Care Bloomington has been flagged by the Department of Health and Human Services as a “Special Focus Facility”, this indicates that the facility has an extended history of consistently poor quality of care. It is subject to more frequent inspections. and potentially higher penalties for violations. This facility had a staggering total of 87 complaints reported in the past 3 years, resulting in health inspection citations. Some of the recent citations include:

12/06/2017 Failure to provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. This serious failure in care resulted in the resident being taken to the emergency room, unresponsive, due to infection developed in multiple pressure ulcers that had not been cared for properly, if at all.

12/06/2017 Failure to provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. Multiple residents had wounds requiring sterile dressings and ointments. The LPN tending to these residents failed to wash their hands between patients, used a dressing dropped on the floor, and used scissors from her pocket that were cleaned with only soap and water (as opposed to following a sterilization protocol.)

11/14/2017 Failure to make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function. Multiple instances of residents wearing extremely wet and soiled incontinence briefs, and only being taken to the toilet after about half a day.

09/27/2017 Failure to 1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents and protect each resident from all abuse, physical punishment, and being separated from others. The Health and Human Services documentation goes into extensive details of multiple altercations between multiple different residents, both physical and verbal, that went mostly unchecked and uninvestigated by the facility until Health and Human Services stepped in.

8/24/2017 Failure to write and use policies that forbid mistreatment, neglect and abuse of residents and theft of residents’ property. This chain of events led to a resident being taken to the emergency room for diabetic complications. The resident was not receiving the nutrition and medication they required. Proper, timed nutrition for diabetic care was ignored, and important medications were not given; both insulin and narcotic pain medication. It was later suspected that staff had taken the pain medication for their own recreational use.

The list of citations unfortunately goes on and on. Poor housekeeping with reports of a strong urine smell throughout, dirty laundry carts sitting in the hallways for hours untouched, subpar kitchen cleanliness, and continued deficiency in wound care round out this grim list.