Aperion Care Vincennes: Maintenance Failures Cited - IN
Federal inspectors documented the condition on September 17, 2025, as part of a complaint inspection that found deteriorating physical conditions across the facility's C and D halls, two resident rooms, and the unit's dining room. The inspection was tied to three separate complaint intakes filed against the facility.
The plywood was not the only problem. In two resident rooms, paint was missing from walls beneath the windows, around the air conditioning units, and behind the beds. The cove base, the protective molding that runs along the base of a wall, was gone from behind the beds in both rooms. A shared restroom door near the nurses' station had a protective covering that had peeled away from the upper right corner and pulled loose roughly halfway down.
The dining room was worse. Inspectors returned on September 23 and found that approximately 80 percent of the paint had peeled off the wall in the activity area near the television and dividing half wall. Above it all, the vaulted ceiling carried a black discoloration near its peak. Residents eat in that room.
The maintenance director, who told inspectors he had been at the facility for only about four weeks, offered explanations for each problem. The broken window had been struck by a lawnmower. The facility was waiting on a replacement. An outside contractor was scheduled to come the following day to bid on the dining room work. Rooms, he said, get repaired and renovated after residents move out.
He also said the facility was in the process of hiring an assistant maintenance worker, and that larger projects were beyond what in-house staff could handle.
What the maintenance director did not explain was how long residents had been living alongside these conditions before anyone scheduled a bid. The inspection report does not say when the lawnmower broke the window, or when the paint began peeling, or when the black discoloration first appeared on the dining room ceiling. It says only what inspectors found when they looked.
The facility administrator produced an undated environmental services policy at 1:30 in the afternoon on September 23, after the inspection was already underway. The policy stated that the facility would be "constructed, equipped, and maintained to carry out the function of all services and to protect the health and safety of residents, personnel, and the public." The document had no date on it.
Inspectors rated the harm level as minimal, meaning they did not find that residents had been injured by the conditions. That designation captures something real and also leaves something out. It measures documented harm. It does not measure what it is to eat lunch every day beneath a blackened ceiling, or to sleep in a room where the wall behind your bed has been stripped down to bare surface, or to look out at the world through a sheet of plywood.
The citation covered one of three resident units observed and one of two dining rooms. Inspectors did not find the same conditions everywhere. They found them where they looked on C and D halls, in the rooms they entered, in the dining room where residents gather to eat and watch television.
The maintenance director's four weeks on the job is not an excuse the inspection report offers. It is simply a fact he provided. The plywood was already in the window when he arrived. The paint was already gone. The ceiling was already dark. He inherited the conditions. Residents had been living with them longer.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Aperion Care Vincennes from 2025-09-23 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
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APERION CARE VINCENNES in VINCENNES, IN was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 23, 2025.
The inspection was tied to three separate complaint intakes filed against the facility.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.