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Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare

  • Nursing Home
  • Memory Care

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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3101 North Florida Avenue,
Alamogordo NM 88310

(575) 440-0809

51.77% estimated occupancy 1

Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Sporting an overall score of D, this is a well below average facility. This facility has very little going for it. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Other
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Oncology Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Lymphedema Care
  • Aquatic Therapy

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

While this nursing home's overall grade wasn't great, it actually received a good score in our short-term care rating. We gave it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. This one of its few redeeming features. In determining our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-minus

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This score is a more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Nurse Quality

Grade: C

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The last area we scored is long-term care, where this nursing home received a rock bottom score here as well. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 92.85714 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we expected but still a decent percentage. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18May 23

Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 7.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 2.58% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 1.28% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 15.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic tells you the percent of long-term stay residents that are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 12.99% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who were prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly used to treat patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 3.66% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 93.61% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 15.55% Percentage of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 14.96% Percentage of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term residents who were able to retain mobility.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 1.38 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 14.96 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 16.43 Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Good Samaritan Society - Betty Dare, 66.9% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with better rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Gerald Champion Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.09 miles away2669 North Scenic Drive Alamogordo New Mexico 88310Voluntary non-profit - Private(575) 443-6100

Nearby Dialysis

  • Alamogordo Dialysis (Fmc)1.2 miles away2578 Medical Dr Alamogordo New Mexico 88310Dialysis Stations: 17 (575) 437-9731

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=325061