Good Samaritan Society Canton

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this nursing home excelled in inspections, where it earned an A. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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.

We also want to alert you to the fact that this facility was given a strong score of A in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 92.94118 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a bit less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade considers a number of factors. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a patient more often.

The next area we rated was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a favorable grade of B. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most critical for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.