Good Samaritan Society- Socorro

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Good Samaritan Society- Socorro's website

1203 Highway 60 West,
Socorro NM 87801

(575) 835-2724

59.39% estimated occupancy ¹

Good Samaritan Society- Socorro is a senior living facility located in Socorro, New Mexico, a city with 10,221 people. With an overall grade of B, this nursing home is one of the 25 best facilities in New Mexico. Based on our analysis, you can do much worse than this nursing home. The best aspect of this facility's strong report card is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Secure Memory Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy

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Facility Inspections

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this place also earned top notch health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our best scores in this category, with a grade of A-. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 91.240875 percent of its residents. 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 one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Short-term Care Quality

Turning to another strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

The final category we looked at is nursing. This nursing home received a B- in the category. The nursing score consists of many subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Good Samaritan Society- Socorro Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 9.1% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 3.06% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who suffered a fall which caused severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 1.54% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay patients that sustained urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 16.38% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for several conditions, including cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 14.02% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who are given antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally given to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 2.99% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 87.52% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 16.91% Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Many in the industry believe that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 20.63% Percentage of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who retained mobility levels. Some experts believe that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 1.27 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 20.63 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Good Samaritan Society- Socorro, 64.67% Percentage of Resident

This metric measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.