Good Samaritan Society - Eugene Village

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also awarded this facility a grade of A- for our short-term care score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is often a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The last category we scored was long-term care. This facility was awarded an above average long-term care rating in our assessment, with a grade of C. Even though this isn't quite as elite as many of its other grades, this remains a decent rating for that area. In our long-term care grade, we focus on the quantity of care offered by a facility, along with a few quality measures. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.