Good Samaritan Home & Rehabilitative Center

Good Samaritan Home & Rehabilitative Center is an average-sized non-profit facility located in Oakland City, Indiana. With an overall grade of D, this is a lower end facility. This is not the worse facility we found, however, we would still be very reluctant to recommend it. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we were not high on this place's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a grade of B. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that have too many severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B. It actually outpaced most facilities in this category. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services. To have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. It performed better than most facilities in this area with 50.8 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. The nursing rating is based on a handful of components, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, in which this facility was given a poor grade in this area also. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.849464 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.22 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.