Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This nursing home turns out to be a respectable facility, with an overall grade of C. Sioux Falls received a city grade of B+, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. This place did not excel in all of our categories, but it did not receive any rock-bottom grades either. More information about these categories can be found below.
Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
- Aquatic Therapy
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in the area of nursing, with a grade of A-. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients more often.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received a positive score in our long-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in that area. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 95.21739 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next most favorable area ended up being its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are often employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
The final category we looked at was inspections. This ended up being this facility's worst grade. We gave it just a D in this category. Since this information is collected by government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our overall grade. One of the most critical factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility had a deficiency by government inspectors. We were relieved to find that it wasn't in a category that suggests that it posed a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This typically means that a nursing home's bad performance has been an issue for more than one year.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 6.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which have pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an measure of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 5.62% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 3.42% of Patients had UTIs
This metric gauges the percent of long-term care patients who experienced UTI's. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 19.49% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 15.06% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 4.79% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term residents showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 95.19% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 16.7% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the erosion of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 19.23% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to the physical health of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 19.23 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 10.33 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, 80.24% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Sioux Falls, SD
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Sioux Falls, South Dakota has 6 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Sanford Usd Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.48 miles away1305 W 18th St Post Office Box 5039 Sioux Falls South Dakota 57117Voluntary non-profit - Private(605) 333-1000
- Avera Mckennan Hospital & University Health CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.83 miles away1325 S Cliff Ave Post Office Box 5045 Sioux Falls South Dakota 57117Voluntary non-profit - Private(605) 322-8000
- Avera Heart Hospital of South DakotaAcute Care Hospitals 5.21 miles away4500 W 69th St Sioux Falls South Dakota 57108Proprietary(605) 977-7000
- Avera Dells Area Hospital - CahCritical Access Hospitals 18.83 miles away909 N Iowa Ave Dell Rapids South Dakota 57022Voluntary non-profit - Private(605) 428-5431
- Sanford Canton-Inwood Medical Center - CahCritical Access Hospitals 19.46 miles away440 North Hiawatha Drive Canton South Dakota 57013Voluntary non-profit - Private(605) 764-1400
Nearby Dialysis
- Sanford Health - Dialysis Unit1.44 miles away1305 W 18th St Sioux Falls South Dakota 57117Dialysis Stations: 21 (605) 333-1000
- Sanford Medical Center1.71 miles away1321 W 22nd St Sioux Falls South Dakota 57105Dialysis Stations: 28 (605) 404-4300
- Avera Dialysis - Sioux Falls1.83 miles away1315 S Cliff Ave Plaza 3, Suite 4000 Sioux Falls South Dakota 57105Dialysis Stations: 22 (605) 322-1490
- Sioux Falls Dialysis - Davita4.69 miles away2326 W 69th St Sioux Falls South Dakota 57108Dialysis Stations: 12 (605) 332-1262