Good Samaritan Society - Oakes

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility has earned excellent government inspections recently. We awarded them an A in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A. There are quite a few subcategories included in this grade. Many of these subcategories are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home 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 facility 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our better scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents who ultimately 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.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home was given a very strong long-term care rating. Although this isn't nearly as impressive as some of its other category grades, this remains one of the stronger scores we offer. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After considering the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93.25153 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.