Good Samaritan Society - Atwood

Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating

650 Lake Road #216,
Atwood KS 67730

72% estimated occupancy ¹

Good Samaritan Society - Atwood is a small non-profit facility located in Atwood, Kansas. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. This nursing home was given one of the best scores we offer. In fact, this facility has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 50 best facilities in Kansas. This nursing home also received consistently good ratings in each of the major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
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Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
Non profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

One of the many reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home also received an A+ for its long-term care score. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This nursing home's vaccination data were a bit weaker than some of its other datapoints in this category, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 90.47619 percent of its patients. We'd like to see some improvement in this area next year. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.63 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

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Nurse Quality

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing grade is based on a variety of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. With 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Short-term Care Quality

The next category we graded was short-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B. Although this was not on par with a few of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless a perfectly acceptable score. Our short-term care grades are likely most critical for folks in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

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Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Good Samaritan Society - Atwood Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 7.19% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients who developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 5.13% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had falls which resulted in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 3.69% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 16.86% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 21.94% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 5.8% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 92.32% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 17% Percentage of Patients

This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 21.37% Percentage of Residents

Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 1.62 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Good Samaritan Society - Atwood, 21.37 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.