Aperion Care Hidden Lake

Aperion Care Hidden Lake
11728 Hidden Lake Dr.
St. Louis, MO 63138
(314) 355-8833

Aperion Care is a large network of skilled nursing, rehabilitation, mental health, and long-term care facilities; they have operating locations all over the Midwest. While many of their facilities are well-rated by Medicare.gov, receiving above average ratings, a surprisingly high number of their locations are failing to provide even average levels of care. Aperion Care Hidden Lake is rated at “below average”.

Aperion Care Hidden Lake is a small, 67 bed long term care and retirement community in St. Louis, Missouri. Aperion Care Hidden Lake offers assisted living apartments as well as post-hospital care.

11/20/2018 Failure to ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. Based on observation, an LPN incorrectly administered Insulin, stating she wasn’t aware that the device needed to be primed before administering. If the needle isn’t primed, the resident may not receive an accurate dose.

The Director of Nursing stated that this LPN hadn’t been trained on priming the insulin pen. The LPN has been working at the facility for a few months without training on the device. Other failures include not administering medications due to not being available on the med cart and not informing the DON of its unavailability, and an incorrect administration of an inhaler medication, increasing the risk of infection in the resident.

02/07/2017 Failure to provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. Proper infection control protocol was not followed during peri-care on multiple occasions. In one instance, the CNA was observed to wash a residents’ face directly after cleaning up their soiled incontinence brief and linens (coming in direct contact with urine) – without changing gloves. Another instance involved donning gloves for peri care without washing hands.

02/07/2017 Failure to 1) Make sure that each resident’s drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident’s entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well-being. Multiple residents were receiving anti-anxiety medications without documentation of behaviors indicating the medication is necessary.