Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village is one of nine nursing homes in this city. With an overall score of A-, this nursing home is among the better nursing homes we assessed. This facility turned out to be one of the better nursing homes in Fort Collins, which has a decent selection of nursing homes. The best aspect of this facility's strong profile is its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
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Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
- Aquatic Therapy
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Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency data for this facility. Without complete deficiency data for this nursing home, it is challenging to fully assess it in the inspections category.
Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving residents more often.
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Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to its high-end resume, this nursing home also was given a dominant short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care scores are crucial for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we graded is this nursing home's poorest area. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it an acceptable grade of C in long-term care. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 92.805756 percent of its residents, which is a few points lower than we anticipated. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 4.65% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 5.04% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who have suffered falls which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 4.38% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay patients who suffered from UTI's. UTI's could be an indication of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this datapoint can also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 12.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used for several conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 15.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 0% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. High levels of depression may reveal a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 92.74% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 24.3% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 31.01% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 31.01% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Good Samaritan Society - Fort Collins Village, 77.65% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Fort Collins, CO
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
- Banner Fort Collins Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.32 miles away4700 Lady Moon Drive Fort Collins Colorado 80528Voluntary non-profit - Other(970) 821-4000
- Poudre Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.65 miles away1024 S Lemay Ave Fort Collins Colorado 80524Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 495-7000
- Mckee Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.84 miles away2000 Boise Ave Loveland Colorado 80538Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 669-4640
- Medical Center of the RockiesAcute Care Hospitals 7.05 miles away2500 Rocky Mountain Avenue Loveland Colorado 80538Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 624-2500
Nearby Dialysis
- Loveland Dialysis (Fmc)4.99 miles away2940 Ginnala Dr Loveland Colorado 80538CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (970) 663-9155
- Northern Colorado Kidney Center (Fmc)5.08 miles away2107 S. Timberline Rd Fort Collins Colorado 80525Dialysis Stations: 20 (970) 482-2161
- Davita Fort Collins Dialysis5.33 miles away1601 Prospect Parkway Suite 180 Fort Collins Colorado 80525Dialysis Stations: 13 (970) 493-0753
- Loveland Central Dialysis (Dva)7.1 miles away1453 N Denver Ave Loveland Colorado 80538Dialysis Stations: 12 (970) 663-4607
- Northern Colorado Home Therapy Dialysis (Fmc)7.42 miles away5285 Mcwhinney Blvd #190 Loveland Colorado 80538Dialysis Stations: 4 (970) 667-0596
- Greeley Dialysis (Dva)19.55 miles away2812 W 10th St Greeley Colorado 80634Dialysis Stations: 12 (970) 352-9072