Good Samaritan Society-Quiburi Mission

In addition to faring well in its overall grade, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, we gave it one of our best scores in this area with a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A-. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was given a dominant short-term care grade. This actually is its third strongest category score. In that area, this facility received a score of A-. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of 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 data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final category we scored is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. This actually turned out to be this facility's worst category. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's personal care rather than the highly skilled therapy or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. We were a bit worried that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to only 79.44444 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.