Good Samaritan Society - Larimore

Good Samaritan Society - Larimore is a small non-profit nursing home located in Larimore, North Dakota. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded facilities we assessed. This nursing home received one of the most impressive scores that we offer. We were impressed enough to rank this facility as one of the top 50 facilities in North Dakota. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's remarkable profile is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 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 well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this facility was given an elite score of A in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home was given an acceptable short-term care score. While this was not nearly as good as a few of its other grades, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 34 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.