Good Samaritan Society - Superior

While this nursing home earned a decent overall grade, its inspections rating is notably more impressive than its overall score. Due to a strong government inspection report this year, it earned one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B+. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of short-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B-. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we assessed is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is clearly a major disappointment. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 98.64865 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.