Good Samaritan Living Center is in Franklinton, Louisiana, a city with 18,540 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B. A score in this range requires respectable marks in most areas. Based on our assessment, this facility is a solid choice for quite a few people. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile was its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph
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Good Samaritan Living Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Catheter Care
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility's next best category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of C. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is considered to be a useful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
Nurse Quality
The last category we looked at is nursing, proved to be this facility's worst category. We awarded this facility a D in that category. This is one of just a few weak links of a strong profile. When computing our nursing ratings, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Good Samaritan Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 14.55% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term care patients that are suffering from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 3.36% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a fall leading to serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 2.73% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often associated with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 8% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 19.47% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 0% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients exhibiting signs of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 100% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 15.24% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 13.91% of Residents
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 13.91% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 9.98% of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Good Samaritan Living Center, 72.34% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Riverside Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 1.51 miles away1900 South Main St Franklinton Louisiana 70438Government - Hospital District or Authority(985) 795-4431
- Our Lady of the Angels HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.11 miles away433 Plaza Street Bogalusa Louisiana 70427Voluntary non-profit - Church(985) 730-6700
- Walthall County General Hospital CahCritical Access Hospitals 18.16 miles away100 Hospital Drive Tylertown Mississippi 39667Government - Local(601) 876-2122
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Washington Parish Dialysis1.27 miles away724 Washington St Franklinton Louisiana 70438Dialysis Stations: 14 (985) 795-1111
- Fkc - Washington Parish1.69 miles away2219 Main St Franklinton Louisiana 70438Dialysis Stations: 15 (985) 839-3605
- Davita - Bogalusa Kidney Care17.45 miles away2108 S Ave F Bogalusa Louisiana 70427Dialysis Stations: 15 (985) 735-7811
- Tylertown Dialysis17.91 miles away4820 Plaza Drive #6 Tylertown Mississippi 39667Dialysis Stations: 20 (601) 222-0311