Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation's website

2555 E Broadway,
Helena MT 59601

(406) 447-1651

73.44% estimated occupancy ¹

Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation is an average-sized facility in Helena, Montana. Sporting an overall score of C, this looks like a decent facility. Based on our ratings, this place has some redeeming qualities. The best part of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Secure Memory Care
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Bariatric Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Short-term Care Quality

This facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Few nursing homes performed more favorably in this category. Our short-term care grades are important for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

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Nurse Quality

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this nursing home a score of D. Our nursing grade weighs numerous subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

Switching gears to the next area, this facility didn't fare well. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is this facility's worst category grade. Facilities that don't score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 66 percent of its residents. This is significantly below what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 8.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 5.25% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure gauges the percent of long-term patients who experienced a fall leading to major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 3.32% of Patients had UTIs

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents that experienced a UTI. Although more infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 16.25% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 14.87% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 5.28% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 93.06% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 15.55% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 18.63% Percentage of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 1.15 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 18.63 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.