Good Samaritan Society-Florida Lutheran

Good Samaritan Society-Florida Lutheran is a senior living facility located in Deland, Florida. This city has a population of 61,526 people. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. This will likely be on your short list in Deland as we ranked it as one of the top three nursing homes in the city. This facility is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly perfect. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Adding to this facility's list of strengths, it also received a top-shelf short-term care grade. We gave them an elite grade of A- in this area. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 59.5 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. There are numerous datapoints within this area. Most of these datapoints are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning patients more frequently.

Switching gears to the final area, this facility was awarded a decent long-term care score. While this was not as elite as a few of its other category grades, this is really nothing to be ashamed of. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's personal care services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 92.5 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.38 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.