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Good Samaritan Society - Hays

Nursing Home
Independent Living

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Good Samaritan Society - Hays's website

2700 Canal Blvd,
Hays KS 67601

(785) 789-3781

90% estimated occupancy ¹

Good Samaritan Society - Hays is a small non-profit facility in Hays, Kansas. Featuring an overall rating of A-, this is clearly a very impressive nursing home. Based on our analysis, this place is simply as good as it gets. This place also received very consistent grades in all of our categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Oncology Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Lymphedema Care
Aquatic Therapy

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Nurse Quality

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent nursing rating, with an A. We analyzed the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.

Facility Inspections

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that area with an A. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

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Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home also performed well in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Very few facilities received a better grade in this area. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.78882 percent of its residents. This is somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

The next area we graded is short-term care, in which this nursing home received a B. This actually proved to be this facility's weakest area. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their weakest score still is better than most other facilities. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be more meaningful for individuals in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 3.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Good Samaritan Society - Hays Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 1.16% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 6.21% of Patients had Serious Falls

This measures the percentage of long-term patients who experienced a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 5% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Although more infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 10.07% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 23.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic gauges the percent of long-term care residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 0% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 93.09% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 19.23% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and bathing. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 19.71% of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 19.71% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 23.52% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Good Samaritan Society - Hays, 68.39% of Resident

This tells you the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.