Good Samaritan Society-Quiburi Mission

Good Samaritan Society-Quiburi Mission is a small non-profit nursing home located in Benson, Arizona. With an A- overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. You simply can not do any better than this place. This nursing home's strong report card was highlighted by its nursing rating, which is addressed in the next section.

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 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident daily. At least one quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high ratio of skilled nursing care. In determining our scores, we apply more weight to care provided by registered or licensed nurses. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also was awarded a fine short-term care grade. In fact, this is this facility's second strongest category score. In that area, this facility received a score of A. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is frequently a useful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Arizona in this area with 57.6 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. It received one of our best grades in that category with a score of A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The final category we rated is long-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of C. This ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. This is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 87.37864 percent of its residents. This is several points below average. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.32 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.