Bella Terra of Billings

Bella Terra of Billings is located in Billings, Montana, a city with a population of 128,125 people. This nursing home is a very respectable facility, with an overall grade of B. This proved to be one of the top three nursing homes in the city. Fortunately, this nursing home did not have any weak links in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for short-term care. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. It outperformed the vast majority of facilities with 67.1 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility received high grades in the area of nursing as well. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

In addition, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is among our best scores. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Moving on to the last category, this facility was awarded a decent long-term care score of C. In determining these long-term care grades, we quantify the facility's personal care services. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.66929 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 1.84 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than the majority of nursing homes due to it having some more complex patients.