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Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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2555 E Broadway,
Helena MT 59601

(406) 447-1651

72.66% estimated occupancy ¹

Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation is located in Helena, Montana. Sporting an overall score of D, this is a relatively poor nursing home. Based on our ratings, this place likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
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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Short-term Care Quality

While we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable short-term care grade. We gave it a B+ in this area, which was much better than its overall grade. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This score is generally a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Facility Inspections

Another strength for this nursing home is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with an B+. Inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid facilities with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

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Long-term Care Quality

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care score. This is not a very good score. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated just 68.72038 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

Nurse Quality

Turning to our fourth category, this nursing home didn't fare well in this area either. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this is about as terrible as it gets. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses are with residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

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, 8.49% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This measures the percent of long-term patients which developed new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 3.32% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall leading to severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 2.76% of Patients had UTIs

This measures the percent of long-term stay patients who suffered from urinary tract infections. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to nursing homes having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 20.62% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 15.38% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure measures the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 7.92% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 79.1% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 18.97% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 9.86% of Residents

This is the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 9.86% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 17.09% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Cooney Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 76.35% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.