Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw is located in Saginaw, Michigan. This facility received an overall rating of F. Keep in mind that Saginaw received a city grade of B-, so should consider other options in the city as well. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is nursing, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Note: Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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Nurse Quality
While this facility's overall grade was rock bottom, it actually didn't perform as poorly in nursing. We awarded it a B- for that category. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, although this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also didn't fare terribly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of C in that area, which happens to be another one of its higher grades. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's personal care rather than the highly skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 55.614975 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second worse score is short-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a well below average grade. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this place offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Facility Inspections
Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received a terrible score. For nursing homes with bad inspection grades, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home had several deficiencies in categories G through L, which are among the more serious deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Another red flag is that CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 8.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 2.9% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls which result in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 2.36% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 13.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 18.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 3.44% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents showing signs of depression. High rates of depression could be a sign lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 91.43% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 12.1% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 17.7% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 1.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 17.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 10.81 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Samaritas Senior Living Saginaw, 77.3% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Saginaw, MI
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
Looking for more options? Saginaw, Michigan has 7 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Covenant Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.62 miles away1447 N Harrison Saginaw Michigan 48602Voluntary non-profit - Private(989) 583-4000
- Ascension St Mary's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.31 miles away800 S Washington Avenue Saginaw Michigan 48601Voluntary non-profit - Church(989) 776-8000
- Healthsource SaginawAcute Care Hospitals 3.57 miles away3340 Hospital Road Saginaw Michigan 48603Voluntary non-profit - Other(989) 790-7888
- Mclaren Bay RegionAcute Care Hospitals 12.15 miles away1900 Columbus Ave Bay City Michigan 48708Voluntary non-profit - Private(989) 894-3000
- Midmichigan Medical Center-MidlandAcute Care Hospitals 19.45 miles away4000 Wellness Drive Midland Michigan 48670Voluntary non-profit - Other(989) 839-3000
Nearby Dialysis
- Town Center Dialysis - Davita1.7 miles away323 N Michigan Ave Saginaw Michigan 48602CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (989) 791-3624
- Bay Area Regl Dialysis Ctr - Saginaw Riverside1.92 miles away920 N Niagara St Saginaw Michigan 48602CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (989) 921-2170
- Saginaw Dialysis Clinic - Davita2.39 miles away311 Hoyt Ave Saginaw Michigan 48607Dialysis Stations: 13 (989) 771-5094
- Bay Area Regl Dialysis Ctr - Saginaw2.95 miles away4800 Mcleod Dr E Saginaw Michigan 48604CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (989) 790-9440
- Gulch Dialysis LLC3.66 miles away5641 Bay Rd Saginaw Michigan 48604Dialysis Stations: 13 (989) 249-1350
- Davita Colmare Dialysis8.81 miles away6302 Dixie Hwy Bridgeport Michigan 48722Dialysis Stations: 12 (989) 777-0780
- Davita - Bay City Dialysis11.68 miles away3170 Professional Ct Bay City Michigan 48706CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (989) 686-8782
- Bay Area Reg Dialysis - Essexville13.25 miles away1536 W Center Rd Essexville Michigan 48732Dialysis Stations: 24 (989) 894-2810