Good Samaritan Home

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. The nursing category assesses many subcategories, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received a very positive short-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Turning to another of this facility's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections proved to be one of its best category grades. In that area, we gave this facility an impressive grade of B+. Inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

In the last area, this nursing home also was given a very strong long-term care score, with a grade of B+. This rounded out a very favorable profile. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.09524 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.