Good Samaritan Society - Curry Village

Good Samaritan Society - Curry Village is a small non-profit nursing home located in Brookings, Oregon. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded nursing homes we looked at. It received one of the best ratings we offer. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we rated it as one of the 25 best facilities in Oregon. This also appears to be a very consistent nursing home with consistently strong ratings in all of the major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home earned nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it earned one of our best grades in that area with an A+. Inspection ratings are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was dominant in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Not many nursing homes fared better in this area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One of this place's strengths is it provides more than seven hours of care per week from registered nurses per resident. This is really the gold standard for this area, as it's about 50% higher than the average facility's level of registered nurse staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 59.1 percent of its patients returning home. This is a far higher rate than most facilities.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. The nursing rating is based on many datapoints, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by these figures. 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 metrics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

In our last category, this facility also was given an excellent long-term care grade, with an A-. This wrapped up a very impressive report card. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of very favorable nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination statistics is superb as well. Indeed, this nursing home vaccinated 99 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.08 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.