Good Samaritan Society - Bloomfield

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. There are a host of factors within this grade. Many of these subcategories relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Nebraska in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

Adding to its fine assessment, this nursing home also received a superb short-term care score, with a grade of A-. In forming these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. 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. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. This facility received an above average nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of B. While this wasn't quite as dominant as many of its other category grades, this is still one of our more favorable grades for this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 94.73684 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.