Good Samaritan Society-Daytona

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this place also received first-rate inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher scores in this category, with an A. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When computing our nursing scores, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the next category, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is typically a useful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final category we looked at is long-term care, where this facility received a grade of B. This facility proved to be very solid across the board. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 80.18018 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we expected but still a decent figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.