Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol is in the large metropolitan area of Albuquerque, New Mexico. We awarded this nursing home a quality overall score of B+. In fact, we ranked it as the fifth best nursing home in Albuquerque. Even with Albuquerque offering 18 nursing homes available, this facility managed to stand out as a superb choice. This facility also received strong grades in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
- Independent Living
- Memory Care
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
- Aquatic Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility excelled at short-term care, where it received a grade of A. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its strong performance in other categories, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our nursing rating. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0 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 place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a resident at least once a day.
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Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also earned top notch inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we looked at was long-term care, where this facility received a B. This facility turned out to be relatively strong in each area we assessed. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.481865 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand 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 - Manzano Del Sol Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 9.1% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 3.06% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which resulted in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 1.54% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of poor nursing care. However, this statistic may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 16.38% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This gauges the percent of long-term patients that are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 14.02% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 2.99% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients showing symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 87.52% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 16.91% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 20.63% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility. Some experts believe that the ability to move around is vital to patients physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 1.27 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 20.63 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically 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 - Manzano Del Sol, 15.13 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol, 64.67% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Albuquerque, NM
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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Nearby Dialysis
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- Fresenius Kidney Care Home Dialysis of New Mexico LLC2.77 miles away700 Lomas Blvd Ne Three Woodward Center Albuquerque New Mexico 87102Dialysis Stations: 3 (505) 842-5210
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