Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol

Good Samaritan Society - Manzano Del Sol is just one of 19 possibilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is a lower end nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our assessment, we would be very reluctant to recommend this facility. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

This nursing home earned a good grade in the area of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. In our short-term care assessment, we try to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this facility performed much more favorably. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country with 68.6 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our more favorable grades. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.46939 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. The nursing rating includes a host of datapoints. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. On top of receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic dragged down this facility's nursing rating significantly.

Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received a terrible score. We weight this category more heavily than other categories. For nursing homes with poor inspection ratings, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home had 2 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we need to point out that this facility received significant government fines in recent years amounting to over $100,000. This typically signifies that a bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.