Good Samaritan Society - Pine River
518 Jefferson Avenue, PO Box 29, Pine River MN 56474 · (218) 587-4423 · 90.6% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Good Samaritan Society - Pine River is a small non-profit facility located in Pine River, Minnesota. This nursing home proved to be an A+ rated facility, which is our most impressive rating. Based on our analysis, this place is really as good as it gets. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its nursing rating, which you can find in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 33 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating assesses many datapoints, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the highest totals we found. In addition, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility in the state in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided.
Long-term Care Quality
This exemplary nursing home also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the elite volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this facility, we also were impressed by the facility's record for vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. This combination proved to be successful as this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. It earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the last category, this nursing home also excelled in the short-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A for this category. This completed a straight A profile. Short-term care grades are generally employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in the country in this area with 56.3 percent of its residents returning home. Most places are below 50 percent in this area.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Good Samaritan Society - Pine River Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who experienced falls leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better