Good Samaritan Society - Comforcare
1201 17th Street Ne, Austin MN 55912 · (507) 437-4526 · 93.11% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Good Samaritan Society - Comforcare is a small non-profit nursing home located in Austin, Minnesota. Sporting an overall rating of B, this facility is a fine option. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Austin. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 45 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this place is a strong facility is that it received a very impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In this category, we gave this facility an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home was given impressive marks in the category of short-term care as well. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most dominant scores in that category with a score of A. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more critical for people needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this nursing home's favorable score in this area is it provides more care from registered nurses than the typical nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home with 56.3 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Nurse Quality
Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is among the higher totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by both of these statistics. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we graded was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a D in our long-term care category, making this its weakest area. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of offering above average levels of nursing care, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.74797 percent of its residents. These scores are notably more respectable than a few of its other statistics in this category. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is far less impressive than its vaccination record.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Good Samaritan Society - Comforcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents who developed pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better