Good Samaritan Society - Osceola

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score features numerous subcategories. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also received a very strong long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this nursing home's second most impressive category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 88.1356 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a bit less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home also performed admirably in the short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category. This rounded out a straight A report card. Short-term care scores are vital for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.