Aperion Care Dekalb

    1212 S Second St, Dekalb, Illinois 60115
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.54·(41)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.5
    • Staff

      3.7
    • Meals

      3.7
    • Amenities

      3.7
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, knowledgeable nursing staff
    • Effective physical and occupational therapy programs
    • Attentive and supportive admissions team
    • Engaging activities and pleasant outdoor spaces
    • Ongoing facility renovation and updated common areas
    • Welcoming front desk and clean lobby
    • Responsive care and attentive therapists
    • Easy admission and streamlined sign-in process
    • Enjoyable meal service (noted by some families)

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and reliance on agency personnel
    • Gaps in medication administration and clinical oversight
    • Cleanliness and sanitation issues in resident areas
    • Pest-control shortcomings in some units
    • Weak infection-control and guideline compliance
    • Deficient discharge coordination and emergency transport response
    • Inadequate personal-item security and inventory controls
    • Variable therapy quality and rehabilitation outcomes
    • Outdated resident rooms and building infrastructure
    • Inconsistent dining quality and meal-service continuity
    • Staff professionalism and responsiveness
    • Perceived poor value relative to recent price increases

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews present a mixed picture. Many commenters praise the clinical therapy team, individual nurses, and an admissions staff that families found welcoming and helpful; at the same time there are persistent operational concerns that affect safety, cleanliness, and consistency of care.

    Care quality and clinical oversight: Therapy services receive frequent positive mentions for achieving functional improvement, and several families attribute recovery progress to the facility’s PT/OT teams. However, reviewers also describe uneven clinical oversight: medication-management issues, questions about monitoring practices (including alarm-system practices), and inconsistent rehabilitation outcomes suggest variability in clinical processes. Staffing instability — including reliance on agency staff — appears to contribute to these inconsistencies and to episodes of delayed or insufficient resident attention.

    Staff and professionalism: Many staff members are described as compassionate and attentive, and individual nursing leaders and therapists are singled out for positive interactions. Conversely, there are recurring concerns about staffing levels, heavy workloads, and occasional unprofessional conduct or poor communication. These workforce issues appear linked to responsiveness problems (residents being ignored or not attended to promptly) and to variability in care delivery across shifts.

    Dining and activities: Activity programming and outdoor spaces are commonly cited as strengths; families noted engaging activities and pleasant grounds. Meal service drew mixed feedback — some reviewers described enjoyable meals and reliable service, while others described inconsistent food quality and service continuity, indicating variability between units or meal periods.

    Facilities, cleanliness, and infection control: The facility is undergoing renovation and common areas such as the lobby have been updated, which some families appreciated. At the same time, multiple comments describe sanitation concerns, odor issues in some areas, and pest-control shortcomings in portions of the building. There are also statements raising concerns about infection-control practices and guideline compliance. Taken together, these items point to uneven environmental maintenance and infection-prevention practices across the campus.

    Management, admissions, and transitions: Admissions staff — notably the named admissions director — receive strong positive feedback for customer service and ease of placement. Conversely, reviewers raise operational concerns about discharge coordination, handling of personal belongings, and emergency-transport responses; there are even allegations of mishandled discharge and delayed ambulance response. Communication and consistency from management appear to be improving under new ownership and renovation efforts, according to some families, but gaps remain in policies and oversight.

    Notable patterns and recommendation guidance: The reviews show a polarized experience: clear strengths in therapy, several dedicated clinical staff, and improvements tied to renovation and leadership changes, alongside persistent operational weaknesses around staffing consistency, environmental sanitation, medication/monitoring practices, and transition coordination. Prospective residents and families should weigh the facility’s rehabilitation strengths and recent upgrades against these operational concerns. When considering placement, ask for current staffing ratios, infection-control protocols, details on medication and alarm/monitoring policies, room condition photos of the specific unit, and documented procedures for discharge and personal-item handling.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Aperion Care Dekalb is located at 1212 S Second St, Dekalb, Illinois, 60115.

    About Aperion Care Dekalb

    Aperion Care Dekalb sits at 1212 South 2nd Street in DeKalb, Illinois, and serves as a Skilled Nursing Facility focused on both long-term and short-term care for seniors and adults with complex needs, and while it's not part of a Continuing Care Retirement Community, it does offer a wide range of health services like skilled nursing, memory care, Alzheimer's care, psychiatric rehab, and post-surgery rehab, along with respite care and services for mental illness. The community operates as a for-profit corporation and's managed by Jennifer Spector since March 2023, maintaining 119 certified beds and averaging about 80 residents daily. The facility offers both one- and two-bedroom apartments, with in-room amenities such as private bathrooms, walk-in showers, kitchenettes, cable TV, phones, Wi-Fi, air conditioning, and furnished spaces, and allows pets. Residents get access to regular housekeeping, laundry, and meal services-meals get prepared by a professional chef, with choices for allergies, diabetes, and other food needs.

    The grounds and common spaces include walking paths, a garden, outdoor activity areas, and a library, plus places for games, movies, art projects, music, fitness, and spa/wellness activities, and folks often take part in movie nights, community outings, and both community- and resident-run programs. Those needing help with daily living find assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, and transfers, and the staff can support feeding tubes, diabetic injections, IV therapy, wound care, medication management, toileting, incontinence, and more, with a multi-disciplinary team in place for physical, occupational, and speech therapy up to seven days a week. The facility features a secured memory unit and offers specialized dementia and memory care, plus psychiatric programs, cardiac rehabilitation, orthopedic and joint replacement therapy, post-stroke rehab, respiratory care including CPAP/BiPAP and nebulizers, and sub-acute rehab, with customized care plans for each resident. There's 24-hour supervision, round-the-clock nurse call systems, and 12-16 hour daily nursing coverage, and they coordinate move-in help when needed.

    Aperion Care Dekalb accepts Medicare and Medicaid. The staff speaks English, but there may be others who speak additional languages. The provider directory updates monthly. The building provides transportation and parking, and there's a concierge service as well. Despite many amenities and care options, state inspection reports have documented 47 deficiencies, some tied to infection control, patient safety, accident prevention, supervision, and pressure ulcer care, and the nurse turnover rate is about 62.3 percent with just under three nurse hours per resident per day. Decisions about specialized medical needs, like tracheostomy care, happen on a case-by-case basis. The facility reports its services under the Aperion Care® trademark, with each one run independently, and while new residents might be accepted, this can change based on availability.

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