Good Samaritan Society - Woodland

To pair with a strong overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home earned an excellent nursing rating. We gave it a grade of B+ in that area. We analyzed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. 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 facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving patients at least once a day.

In addition, this facility also received favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a score of B+. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 86.55462 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we scored is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B-. This was this facility's least impressive category. This is still not a bad grade. Our short-term care grade is often used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 3.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.