Good Samaritan Society - Fairfield Glade

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also received a top-shelf long-term care grade. This actually is this nursing home's third best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.42519 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Finishing off this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this facility an A- for our inspections rating. With this grade, the facility completes its straight A report card. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem 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.