Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls: ADL Care Cited - SD
The citation, issued September 5, 2025, targeted one of the most fundamental obligations a nursing home carries: helping residents eat, bathe, dress, and move when they cannot do those things on their own. Inspectors classified the deficiency under a category covering activities of daily living, the shorthand term for the routines that define a person's most basic functioning and dignity.
The violation was one of nine deficiencies cited during the same inspection.
The inspection was triggered by a complaint. Inspectors did not document that any resident suffered actual harm, but they determined the conditions created potential for more than minimal harm. That distinction matters less than it might sound. A resident who cannot independently dress, reposition, or feed themselves is not in a position to compensate when staff fall short. The potential does not stay theoretical for long.
Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center reported a correction date of October 14, 2025, roughly six weeks after inspectors walked out the door.
What the inspection report does not say is as notable as what it does. It does not describe which residents were affected, how many, or what specific care they were denied. It does not name a staff member, a shift, or a unit. The public record, as released, captures the category of failure without the texture of it, without the resident who waited, without the aide who didn't come, without the hour that stretched into something longer.
That gap is not unusual. Inspection summaries at this level of severity frequently compress what investigators found into a regulatory conclusion. The underlying documentation, the interview notes, the observations recorded room by room, stays inside the file.
What the record does establish is this: a complaint reached regulators, inspectors responded, and they found enough to cite the facility. Nine times over.
The activities of daily living citation carries a scope and severity score of D, meaning inspectors considered it isolated rather than widespread, and found no documented harm. But the residents covered by this deficiency are, by definition, the most dependent people in the building. They are the ones who cannot stand without help, cannot bring a fork to their mouth reliably, cannot manage a shower or a change of clothes without another person's hands. When the assistance they need does not arrive, the consequences accumulate quietly: skin that breaks down from sitting too long in one position, meals left untouched, the slow erosion of whatever independence remained.
Good Samaritan Society is one of the largest nonprofit senior care networks in the country. The Sioux Falls center operates under that name and the institutional weight it carries. Nine deficiencies in a single complaint inspection is not a portrait of a facility operating at the standard its name implies.
The facility's reported correction, logged for October 14, closes the regulatory loop on paper. Whether the residents who prompted the original complaint received what they needed in the weeks between September 5 and that correction date is not something the public record addresses.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center from 2025-09-05 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
Corrections may have occurred: Inspection reports reflect conditions observed on the date of the survey. Facilities may have implemented corrections, staffing changes, additional training, or other remediation since the report was issued. We report what CMS provides and encourage readers to seek current information from the facility.
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GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY SIOUX FALLS CENTER in SIOUX FALLS, SD was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 5, 2025.
The violation was one of nine deficiencies cited during the same inspection.
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.