Good Samaritan Society - Fontanelle

This nursing home earned a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an A in this area. Nursing grades are primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

In addition, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our higher scores in that category, with a score of B. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we scored is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a grade of C for the area. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.61905 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.