Good Samaritan Society-Daytona

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Adding to its impressive profile, this place also excelled in nursing. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for that category. Nursing scores are largely associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides a very impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is among the better figures in Florida. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls leading to major injury, this place performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B. It performed better than most facilities in this area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. This nursing home's vaccination records weren't as favorable a few of its other datapoints in this category, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 80.42553 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to the final category, this facility was awarded an acceptable short-term care rating. While this is not as elite as some of its other scores, this is really not a poor grade. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is considered to be a fair assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. This facility performed better in this statistic. We found that it fared better than most facilities in this area with 51.5 percent of its residents returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.