Good Samaritan Society Corsica

In addition to receiving a quality overall grade, this nursing home also received excellent inspections recently. We gave it one of our best scores in that category, with an A. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its high-end profile, this facility also was given a dominant short-term care score, with a grade of A-. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also was given a high-end long-term care score. This actually turned out to be this facility's third strongest category grade. In that area, this facility received a score of A-. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 92.42424 percent of its residents. This is slightly less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility was awarded a strong nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in this area, wrapping up one of our more impressive profiles. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.