Good Samaritan Society - Arlington

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When determining our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite short-term care score. We awarded them one of our best grades in that category, with a grade of A-. Short-term care ratings are critical for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

We also wanted to emphasize this nursing home's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Switching gears to the final area, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care grade. Although this was not as good as several of its other scores, this is really not a major area of concern. In computing our long-term care scores, we size up the personal care received by a nursing home's residents. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.42857 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.