Good Samaritan Society Tyndall is a small non-profit nursing home located in Tyndall, South Dakota. With an B+ overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top third of all nursing homes in the nation. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this place. 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.
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Good Samaritan Society Tyndall
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- 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
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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
This nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that area with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.53704 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep 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 number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our better scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
The next area we scored was nursing. In this category, we gave this facility an above average grade of B. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.
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, 6.75% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 6.48% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients who sustained falls leading to serious injury. We use this statistic in determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 3.4% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from a UTI. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 25.25% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents which were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 12.5% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 3.32% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 92.11% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 14.35% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 20.84% of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents who remained mobile levels. Many believe that mobility is vital to patients mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Good Samaritan Society Tyndall, 20.84% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
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