Good Samaritan Society - Osceola

Good Samaritan Society - Osceola is a small non-profit nursing home located in Osceola, Nebraska. With an A overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the country. You really can not do any better than this nursing home. We also gave this facility strong scores in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its first-rate overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for nursing. The nursing rating assesses quite a few subcategories, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving residents more frequently.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Building on its remarkable resume, this facility also received a superb long-term care grade, with a score of A-. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 94.927536 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.51 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we rated is this facility's poorest category. Nevertheless, even its lowest point would likely be a strength for many facilities. In fact, we awarded it a favorable grade of B for our short-term care category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.