Good Samaritan Society - Oakes

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Our nursing score includes several components, however, the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with a score of A. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This facility also received a strong short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. Our short-term care ratings are critical for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last category we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a better than average long-term care rating in our assessment, with a grade of B-. Although this is not quite as impressive as many of its other category grades, this remains an acceptable rating for this area. With our long-term care grade, we look at the amount of care provided by a nursing home, as well as some quality data points. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 94.25288 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.