Good Samaritan Society-Quiburi Mission

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this facility an A. The nursing rating is based on quite a few components, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on our next area, this nursing home was awarded first-rate short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this area. In our short-term care score, we try to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we graded is long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B. While this is its worst category grade, this is still a strong score. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 84 percent of its patients, which is a bit below what we were hoping for. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.