Good Samaritan Society Wagner

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility also earned an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home fared well in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our most favorable scores. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our more positive scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we analyzed was nursing. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a solid grade of B-. This is this nursing home's weakest area. Our nursing grade consists of quite a few data points, however, the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing ratings. This place was subpar in a few of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are usually good measures of the quality of nursing care available.