Good Samaritan Society - Saint Ansgar

To go along with a favorable overall score, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. The nursing grade includes a handful of subcategories, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of B. It performed better than most facilities in this category. Our short-term care ratings are likely most important for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final category we scored is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a C. Although this turned out to be its worst category grade, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. In calculating our long-term care scores, we scrutinize the assistance with daily living received by a facility's residents. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 98.48485 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.