Good Samaritan Society - Spokane Valley
East 17121 Eighth Avenue, Greenacres WA 99016 · (509) 924-6161 · 92.26% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Good Samaritan Society - Spokane Valley is an average-sized non-profit facility in Greenacres, Washington. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective patients. Based on our analysis, this facility has quite a bit going for it. The best part of this nursing home's impressive profile was its nursing grade. We discuss nursing in the next section
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 97 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A. Our nursing score considers many datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home boasts an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which more than an hour of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in several quality measures we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Washington in this category.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care score. In forming these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. This place was respectable in this area with 45.3 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we rated was long-term care. This facility was given a better than average long-term care rating in our assessment, with a C. Even though this is not quite as strong as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless a respectable grade in this category. Our long-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's volume of nursing care. This includes a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 92.40924 percent of its patients. This is slightly lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Good Samaritan Society - Spokane Valley Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better