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Good Samaritan Nursing Home

Health Inspections

Health Inspections 3
Health Deficiencies
This Nursing Home: 4
NY State Average: 6
U.S. Average: 6
NY Deficiencies Range: 1–31
Complaints & Incidents: 1
Updated April 18, 2013.

Our health inspections rating describes how well this home met health and safety standards for food preparation and other nursing-home activities in the latest three state inspections. Such inspections are conducted about every 15 months.

November 27, 2012 Health Inspection

Nursing Home Failed To:	Possible or Actual Harm	Residents Affected	Date Fixed
Ensure residents maintain acceptable nutritional status.	Low	Few	1/18/2013
Give or get quality laboratory services/tests in a timely manner to meet the needs of residents.	Low	Few	1/18/2013
Allow residents the right to participate in the planning or revision of care and treatment.	Low	Few	1/18/2013
Assist those residents who need help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene.	Low	Few	1/18/2013

November 10, 2011 Health Inspection

Nursing Home Failed To:	Possible or Actual Harm	Residents Affected	Date Fixed
Provide housekeeping and maintenance services.	Low	Some	12/30/2011
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading.	Low	Few	12/30/2011
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards.	Low	Few	12/30/2011
Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards.	Low	Few	12/30/2011
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.	Low	Few	12/30/2011
Ensure that each resident's 1) entire drug/medication regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; and 2) is managed and monitored to achieve highest level of well-being.	Low	Few	12/30/2011
Ensure that residents are safe from serious medication errors.	Low	Few	12/30/2011
Give proper treatment to residents with feeding tubes to prevent problems (such as aspiration pneumonia, diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, metabolic abnormalities, nasal-pharyngeal ulcers) and help restore eating skills, if possible.	Low	Few	12/30/2011

November 24, 2010 Health Inspection

Nursing Home Failed To:	Possible or Actual Harm	Residents Affected	Date Fixed
Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care.	Low	Some	1/23/2011
Review or revise the resident's care plan after any major change in physical or mental health.	Low	Few	1/23/2011

December 29, 2009 Complaints & Incidents

Nursing Home Failed To:	Possible or Actual Harm	Residents Affected	Date Fixed
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provide adequate supervision to prevent avoidable accidents.	Low	Few	1/29/2010

Note: Because of differences in calculation, all data may not match those shown on Nursing Home Compare, a website run by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS has approved the U.S. News methodology.

Last updated April 18, 2013.