Good Samaritan Society - Olathe

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home was given high grades in the category of short-term care as well. Indeed, it received one of our most elite grades in that area with a score of A-. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded this facility a solid score in this area, with a B-. Even though this isn't as favorable as many of its other scores, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility vaccinated 95.652176 percent of its residents, which is a very solid figure. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.