Good Samaritan Society Tyndall is a small non-profit nursing home located in Tyndall, South Dakota. After receiving an A overall grade, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the top 50 facilities in South Dakota. Based on our ratings, you can not go wrong with this facility. Scroll down to find this facility's category scores, which are also quite good. It would be hard to poke holes in this place's profile.
Good Samaritan Society Tyndall
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Among its many high-end grades, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf long-term care grade. In fact, it received a grade of A in that area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place South Dakota in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
In our final area, this facility also was awarded a very strong short-term care score, with a grade of B+. This wrapped up a very favorable profile. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home 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. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Good Samaritan Society Tyndall Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 6.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 5.62% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients who have sustained a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 3.42% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term patients who have had UTI's. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this datapoint could also be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 19.49% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents who are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 15.06% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 4.79% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 95.19% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 16.7% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 19.23% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 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.
Nearby Hospitals
- St Michael's Hospital - CahCritical Access Hospitals 0.54 miles away410 W 16th Ave Tyndall South Dakota 57066Government - Local(605) 589-2100
- Landmann-Jungman Memorial Hospital - CahCritical Access Hospitals 12.49 miles away600 Billars St Scotland South Dakota 57059Government - Local(605) 583-2226