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Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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300 Good Samaritan Drive,
Mountain Home AR 72653

(870) 425-2494

40.85% estimated occupancy 1

Located in Mountain Home, Arkansas, Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home is one of just a couple available facilities there. It looks like this nursing home is among the best nursing homes we found. This nursing home received one of the most impressive grades we offer. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the nation. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's stellar profile is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Recreational Therapy

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Arkansas badge

Best Nursing Home in Arkansas Awards 2021

Best Nursing Home in Mountain Home, Arkansas badge

Best Nursing Home in Mountain Home, Arkansas Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

Adding to its fine resume, this facility also was given a strong long-term care score, with a grade of A. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.80851 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

Another impressive feature of this nursing home is its inspection score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Our inspection ratings are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

The last area we rated is nursing, where this nursing home was awarded an A-. This wrapped up a very strong profile. Few nursing homes earned an A- or higher in every single category. Our nursing score is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic is is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 6.38% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that had a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric could also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 1.06% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic gauges the percent of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 4.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 0% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 98.4% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 9.59% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate decline of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 19.41% of Residents

This indicates the percentage of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 19.41% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 6.84% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Good Samaritan Society - Mountain Home, 70.44% of Resident

This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Baxter Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.11 miles away624 Hospital Drive Mountain Home Arkansas 72653Voluntary non-profit - Private(870) 508-1000
  • Izard County Medical Center, LLCCritical Access Hospitals 17.95 miles away61 Grasse Street Calico Rock Arkansas 72519Proprietary(870) 297-2400

Nearby Dialysis

  • Rvm - Renal Ctr of Mtn Home2.19 miles away200 East 8th St #101 Mountain Home Arkansas 72653Dialysis Stations: 20 (870) 508-6500