Good Samaritan Society - Westbrook

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded a top-shelf long-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this facility's second strongest category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing score features a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

Switching gears to our next area, this nursing home also performed well in the short-term care category. We gave it a B+ for that area. This wrapped up a first-rate report card. In our short-term care rating, we try to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.