Nursing Homes · Medicare certified
Good Samaritan - George
324 First Avenue North · George, IA 51237 · 36 certified beds
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About Good Samaritan - George
Good Samaritan - George is a nursing home in George, Iowa. Its capacity is 36 beds, below the Iowa median of 57 for nursing homes. It is run by a nonprofit operator and is part of Good Samaritan Society. It is Medicare certified. Its public inspection record shows 21 citations, the most recent on August 21, 2025. CMS also lists 2 fines or payment denials against it. Nurse staffing averages 3.17 hours per resident per day. Its public records were last updated in October 2026.
Public record
CMS Care Compare, updated October 2026
Certification
Medicare-certified.
Ratings
Overall
3.0Staffing
4.0Quality measures
4.0CMS Care Compare, October 2026.
Inspection history (21)
Records from September 2023 to August 2025.
September 21, 2023
Tag F0625Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Severity D: isolated, no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Corrected October 14, 2023.
Penalties (2)
Total fines: $18,142
August 29, 2024 · Fine
CMS recorded a civil money penalty of $8,827 against this nursing home on August 29, 2024.
September 21, 2023 · Fine
CMS recorded a civil money penalty of $9,315 against this nursing home on September 21, 2023.
Staffing
3.17 nurse hours per resident per day in Q2 2026, up from 3.11 in Q4 2025.
From the payroll records nursing homes file with CMS.
Ownership
Non profit - Corporation
Part of Good Samaritan Society, a chain of 92 nursing homes.
Average CMS star ratings across the chain: 3.0 overall, 2.8 for health inspections, 3.9 for staffing, 2.9 for quality measures.
Typical cost
CareScout Cost of Care Survey, 2025
This provider's prices aren't public. Here is what the same care typically costs in Iowa.
What Medicaid pays nursing homes
This is what Iowa Medicaid pays a nursing home for each resident per day. It is not what a family pays privately, but it shows what the state treats as the cost of a day of care.
Median facility daily rate
$307.06per day
About $9,335 a month.
Median we calculated from the state's own facility rate file, January 1, 2026. Based on 381 facilities.
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