Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars's website

1140 Lincoln Street Ne,
Le Mars IA 51031

(712) 545-2422

78.85% estimated occupancy ¹

Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars is a facility in Le Mars, Iowa. The city has a total of 12,336 people. Sporting an overall score of A-, this facility is ranked among the better facilities we assessed. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all nursing homes in the United States. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.

Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Pain Management
Oncology Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Lymphedema Care
Aquatic Therapy

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a top notch facility overall, it also performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

To complement its impressive accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 96.276596 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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Nurse Quality

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a resident at least once a day.

Short-term Care Quality

The last area we looked at was short-term care, in which this facility received a B-. This actually ended up being this facility's weakest area. This is still not a bad grade. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 6.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

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

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 3.69% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term residents who suffered falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 3.09% of Patients had UTIs

This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who experienced a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic can also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 16.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 18.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 4.48% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 94.58% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 16.82% Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 19.24% Percentage of Residents

This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 19.24 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Good Samaritan Society - Le Mars, 11.86 Percentage of Patients

This metric measures 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 - Le Mars, 79.45% Percentage of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

Floyd Valley HealthcareCritical Access Hospitals 0.51 miles away714 Lincoln St Ne Le Mars Iowa 51031Proprietary(712) 546-7871
Orange City Area Health SystemCritical Access Hospitals 14.35 miles away1000 Lincoln Circle Se Orange City Iowa 51041Voluntary non-profit - Other(712) 737-4984
Sioux Center HealthCritical Access Hospitals 18.57 miles away1101 9th Street Se Sioux Center Iowa 51250Voluntary non-profit - Private(712) 722-1271