Good Samaritan Care Center

    403 W Main St, Cole Camp, MO 65325
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Clean, respectful staff; stimulating activities

    I placed my grandmother here and have been very pleased. The facility is spotless, the staff are cheerful, professional and treat residents like family, and they show genuine care and respect (even toward pastors). Activities are stimulating - mind games and chess are regular favorites and residents are encouraged to join. The food is good, outpatient therapy produced solid results, and rates are reasonable. My grandmother seems happy and well cared for; overall an excellent team and a real asset to the community, with only a couple small things that could be tightened.

    Loved one of resident
    Sep 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.27·(22)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.9
    • Staff

      3.7
    • Meals

      4.0
    • Amenities

      4.3
    • Value

      4.0

    Pros

    • Clean, well-maintained environment
    • Compassionate and friendly caregiving staff
    • Engaging recreational and cognitive activities (e.g., mind games, chess)
    • Encouragement of resident participation in activities
    • Effective outpatient therapy and rehabilitation services
    • Reasonable pricing and value for services
    • Family-oriented culture and respectful treatment of residents
    • Quality dining and meal service
    • Positive community reputation

    Cons

    • Incontinence-care delays and hygiene-management gaps
    • Inconsistent responsiveness to care needs
    • Communication breakdowns with families and restrictive visitation handling
    • Wound-care and skin-integrity management inconsistencies
    • Variable staff professionalism and conflict-resolution processes
    • Inconsistent clinical oversight and follow‑up

    Summary of reviews

    The set of reviews presents a mixed but informative picture. Many family members and residents describe a facility that is clean and well maintained, with staff who are warm, friendly and personally engaged. Several accounts emphasize a family-oriented culture, consistent encouragement for residents to participate in activities, and effective outpatient therapy services—elements that contribute to reported resident contentment and a positive community reputation.

    Care-quality impressions are divided. Positive descriptions highlight attentive caregiving, good rehabilitation outcomes, and residents who appear happy and well taken care of. Counterbalancing these, there are specific clinical concerns: reviewers describe delays in basic hygiene and incontinence care, occurrences of pressure‑ulcer development, and inconsistencies in wound-care follow-up. These point to gaps in clinical monitoring and timely hands-on care rather than an absence of skilled staff overall.

    Staff behavior and professionalism are likewise variable in tone. Many reviewers praise compassionate, friendly, and respectful direct-care workers and note strong interpersonal rapport. However, other accounts raise concerns about bedside manner, delayed responses to call signals, and episodic confrontations between staff and family members. These suggest uneven training or supervision in communication and conflict resolution across shifts or teams.

    Activities and therapy are clear strengths. Reviewers frequently cite stimulating programming—mental games, chess and other group activities—and effective outpatient therapy that produced noticeable improvement for some residents. Dining receives generally positive comments about food quality. The facility’s appearance and upkeep are also commonly described as positive, supporting a comfortable daily environment for residents.

    Management and communication emerge as an area for improvement. Several comments indicate limited or inconsistent family communication and instances where visitation or family access felt restricted. Combined with the clinical issues noted above, these patterns suggest opportunities to strengthen policies for family engagement, incident communication, and clinical oversight to ensure consistent standards across staff and shifts.

    For prospective residents and families: the facility demonstrates many strengths—cleanliness, active programming, therapy services and a warm culture—but there are recurring operational themes to investigate further. When touring or evaluating placement, ask specifically about incontinence- and wound‑care protocols, staffing levels and response times, family communication policies and supervision/training procedures that address professionalism and conflict resolution. Doing so will help determine whether the facility’s positive attributes align with the specific clinical and communication needs of your family member.

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    Medicare Ratings

    5·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

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    • Quality Measures

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    Location

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    Good Samaritan Care Center is located at 403 W Main St, Cole Camp, MO, 65325.

    About Good Samaritan Care Center

    Good Samaritan Care Center, also called Good Samaritan Nursing Home, sits under the operation of Purple Door, LLC, and has been serving seniors for many years with a range of care options like assisted living, independent living, memory care, continuing care, and even hospice and respite services if someone needs those, and the place tries to keep things comfortable and safe for everyone, even folks living with disabilities or certain diseases. The community has a dedicated team of senior care advocates who answer questions and help families or visitors schedule tours online, so people can actually come see the facilities, meet the staff which includes R.N.s, L.P.N.s, Certified Medication Technicians, Nurse Assistants, On-Call Physicians, a Dietitian, Social Services Director, and Activities Director, and you'll see everyone during a visit making the place run smoothly, with these tours letting folks try out community life for themselves and making things feel a bit more like home. There are care services shaped around each resident's needs, including Alzheimer's care, physical, occupational, and speech therapy from Paul Chang & Associates, and around-the-clock personal and medical care, plus weekly meetings to set up and review everyone's care plans with the resident and family being included too, and that's something a lot of folks appreciate. The building expanded in 2003, so now there's a large activity room, an area for families, and the original older side got remodeled in 2010 to improve dining spaces, halls, and resident areas, which helps keep things welcoming and up to date without losing the homey feel, and all rooms come with basic cable TV for comfort, and there are outdoor and indoor sitting spaces for visiting, playing cards, or having a chat. Good Samaritan Care Center also offers a beauty salon right on site, run by a licensed beautician, so getting a haircut or style doesn't mean leaving the community, and cleaning is all handled by the caregivers, so the environment stays tidy and easy to live in, with meals made by a dietary department for health and taste. Activities play a big part here, with weekly games like bingo, arts and crafts, cooking classes, live music, field trips, pitch, toss-off, high roller, and sometimes outings to the fair or barbecues, and they also hold Family Nights for residents and loved ones to enjoy food and entertainment together, plus community events, fundraisers, and other gatherings that help people stay connected. For doctor or hospital visits, van trips are arranged at a small cost, and outside specialists like podiatry, vision care, psychiatry, x-ray, and lab services come to the facility as needed, so a lot of needs get taken care of on site. Memory care and hospice programs offer compassionate end-of-life care, and the team works to make sure everybody feels supported, with activities and spaces for visitors and residents to spend time together.

    People often ask...

    Good Samaritan Care Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 403 W Main St, Cole Camp, MO 65325.

    No, Good Samaritan Care Center does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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