Good Samaritan Rehab and Care Center

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility excelled in nursing. We awarded it a grade of A- for that area. Our nursing grade is based on a handful of components, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

Adding to its high-end resume, this facility also performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, it received a score of A- in that category. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Moving on to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of A- for that category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The next area we scored was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our higher scores in that area, with a B. Even though this was not as favorable as many of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless a positive grade. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.