Good Samaritan Society - Mott

On top of performing well in its overall score, this nursing home received an excellent nursing rating. We awarded it an A in that category. Nursing ratings are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The next area we assessed ended up being this facility's weakest area. However, even its weakest link would be a strength for most facilities. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B for long-term care. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 88.888885 percent of its patients. This is slightly less than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.