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Deer Lodge

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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Deer Lodge's website

1100 Texas Ave,
Deer Lodge MT 59722

(406) 846-1655

76.16% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in Deer Lodge, Montana, Deer Lodge is the only nursing home located in the city. This facility was given an F, which is really a rock-bottom score in our grading scheme. In our view, you'd be better off to steer clear of this facility. Finally, we were surprised to learn that this place received a decent score in the area of nursing. You can find additional information about this category below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company

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Nurse Quality

Grade: C

Although we graded this nursing home extremely poorly overall, it received a somewhat respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a C in this category. Nursing scores are tied to nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

Facility Inspections

Grade: D

Sadly, this facility's second best category was inspections, but even there it received a D. This is still a well below average grade. Inspection grades factor in many items on the facility's recent inspection reports. When you see too many deficiencies on the reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also want to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently of over $100,000. This usually signifies that a bad performance spanned multiple years.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

This facility ended up receiving a a very poor grade in our short-term care category. It received an F in this area. Short-term care ratings are critical for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we learned that this nursing home provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The last area we rated was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a rock bottom grade here as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. In addition to assessing the amount 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 91.90752 percent of its patients, which is a few points less than we anticipated. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Deer Lodge Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Deer Lodge, 8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents that developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-plus

In Deer Lodge, 2.31% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care patients who have sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Deer Lodge, 2.34% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to facilities with lower levels of hygiene. More frequent bathing can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Deer Lodge, 19.4% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Deer Lodge, 7.14% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Deer Lodge, 9.38% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Deer Lodge, 93.32% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Deer Lodge, 22.62% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate the erosion of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Deer Lodge, 18.8% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who remained mobile levels. Some experts believe that mobility is critical to patients mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Deer Lodge, 0.55 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Deer Lodge, 18.8% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Deer Lodge, 79.4% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.