Good Samaritan Society - Olathe

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded it an A for this category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the nursing home's 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received a favorable long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 94.90741 percent of its residents, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we rated was short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Our short-term care scores are arguably more meaningful for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 3.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.