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Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home

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Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home's website

10 Kruger Rd,
Plains MT 59859

(406) 826-4800

77.85% estimated occupancy 1

Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home is a small hospital-based nursing home in Plains, Montana. This nursing home proved to be an A rated facility. This nursing home received one of the highest grades that we offer. A grade in this range requires excellent marks across the board. We really can not say enough good things about this facility. This facility also received consistently good scores in all of the major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Montana Awards 2020

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

The third category we looked at is short-term care. Adding to its high-end profile, this nursing home also excelled in this area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A- in the category. Our short-term care ratings are probably most important for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In the final category we assessed, this facility was given a very strong grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility finished off a first-rate report card. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.75281 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18May 23

Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 8.97% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 4.88% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents that have had a fall which resulted in major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 2.93% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care. Better hygiene protocols can limit the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 16.56% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients that are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 14.4% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This measures the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 4.23% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 92.91% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 15.58% Percentage of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 15.72% Percentage of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 1.26 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Clark Fork Valley Nursing Home, 15.72 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Clark Fork Valley HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0 miles away10 Kruger Rd Plains Montana 59859Voluntary non-profit - Private(406) 826-4800
  • Mineral Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.77 miles away1208 6th Ave E Superior Montana 59872Voluntary non-profit - Private(406) 822-4841