About Us
Good Samaritan Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital is guided by the St. Mary's Health Care System mission of improving the health of the people of our communities. Good Samaritan is a 25-bed acute care critical access hospital accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, serving the Lake Oconee area of East Georgia. We offer a wide range of services including general surgery and a 24-hour emergency department. As a St. Mary's Health Care System hospital, we are able to bring you specialty services close to home, provided by a network of physicians. We also can provide you with access to the expertise and specialty services at St. Mary's Hospital in Athens when you require care not available locally.
Accolades
- Inspection by the Joint Commission, June 2010. Summation Comment: "…a model hospital for all CAH's in the US."
- Patient satisfaction scores consistently maintained at or above the 95th percentile.
- Patient and family services
- Participation in local community events
- Health fairs and screenings
- Member of Chamber of Commerce
Services for local physicians and healthcare providers
- Nursing courses (on-campus courses and webcasts)
- Policy and protocol development
- Disease management program development
- On-line medical library access
- Continuing Medical Education programs
- Advocacy and legislative affairs
About St. Mary’s Health Care System
St. Mary’s is a fast-growing, non-profit health care system that includes a 196-bed hospital in Athens, GA; Highland Hills Village retirement community and Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care; regional home health care and hospice services, including the area’s only inpatient hospice house; outpatient diagnostic, rehabilitation and wellness center; and an expanding number of physician practices, including cardiology, neurology, internal medicine, industrial medicine and general surgery.
St. Mary’s is the only hospital in the region to achieve The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval™ certification in advanced primary stroke care, heart failure care, total knee replacement, advanced inpatient diabetes care, and spine surgery. In addition, St. Mary’s was named #1 in the state in stroke care by Georgia Trend Magazine and a Top-Performing Hospital in America for Orthopedics by U.S. News and World Report in 2011. St. Mary’s received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Gold Plus Performance Award for stroke care in 2010 and 2011 and was named Georgia’s Large Hospital of the Year in 2006 and 2010 by the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals. St. Mary’s is a member of Catholic Health East and has been the official health care provider for the University of Georgia Athletic Association since 1999.
