Good Samaritan Society - Holstein

Good Samaritan Society - Holstein is a facility located in Holstein, Iowa, which has a population of 1,989 people. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this facility should work for most prospective patients. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this nursing home. This nursing home is stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this place a grade of A for the area of inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable long-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 91.57895 percent of its patients. This is somewhat less than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.72 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing grade weighs quite a few components, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we scored is this nursing home's weakest area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of C for our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 39.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.