Good Samaritan Society - Stillwater

We also would like to note that this nursing home excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an A+ in this area. We assessed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this category. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home was awarded an elite grade of A in our long-term care area. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 82.88288 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat lower than we anticipated but still a decent figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't 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.

The final area we graded is short-term care, where this facility received a grade of A. This topped off an elite report card. Few facilities received an A- or better in every single category. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.