Good Samaritan Society Larimore: No Infection Control - ND
The admission came on February 10, 2025, at 4:14 in the afternoon. The administrative nurse said the words out loud: the facility had no staff member with specialized training in infection prevention and control.
That gap, inspectors noted, placed every resident in the building at risk. Every staff member. Every visitor who walked through the door.
Infection control in a nursing home is not a clerical function. It is the system that tracks outbreaks before they spread, identifies which residents are most vulnerable to contagion, and ensures that the routines of daily care — wound treatment, catheter management, the movement of staff between rooms — don't become pathways for disease. When that system has no qualified person running it, the risks don't disappear. They accumulate quietly, without anyone trained to see them.
Good Samaritan Society's own policy made the requirement plain. A document titled "Infection Preventionist and Control Program," dated December 2, 2024, stated that the facility's infection preventionist must have completed specialized training in infection prevention and control. The facility wrote that requirement down less than three months before inspectors arrived and found it unmet.
The inspection was a complaint survey, completed February 13, 2025. Inspectors tagged the violation as F0882, with a harm level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and noted it affected many residents.
That language, "potential for actual harm," is bureaucratic in its framing. What it describes is a nursing home full of elderly people, many of them with compromised immune systems, living in close quarters, sharing common spaces and care staff, with no one on the payroll whose job it was to watch for what could make them sick.
Good Samaritan Society - Larimore sits at 501 East Front Street, a small facility in a small city in eastern North Dakota. The nearest city of any size is Grand Forks, about 30 miles to the south. For the people who live at the facility, there is no easy alternative if something goes wrong.
The violation was one of two cited in this inspection. The other, F0812, addressed food safety. Neither rose to the level of immediate jeopardy, the most serious classification inspectors can assign. But the absence of a qualified infection preventionist is not a paperwork problem. It is a structural failure in the system designed to protect people who cannot protect themselves.
Federal inspection requirements for skilled nursing facilities have long mandated that a designated infection preventionist be responsible for the program, with training to match the role. Good Samaritan Society's own policy echoed that standard. The gap between what the policy said and what the facility had done was the entire width of the violation.
The administrative nurse who confirmed the failure did not, according to the inspection report, offer an explanation for how the position had gone unfilled. There was no timeline given for when the facility had last had a qualified infection preventionist. There was no account of what, if anything, had substituted for one in the interim.
What the record shows is a facility that wrote down what it was supposed to do, and then, when inspectors came, acknowledged it hadn't done it.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Good Samaritan Society - Larimore from 2025-02-13 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY - LARIMORE in LARIMORE, ND was cited for violations during a health inspection on February 13, 2025.
The admission came on February 10, 2025, at 4:14 in the afternoon.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.