Deer Lodge is a small nursing home located in Deer Lodge, Montana. We gave this nursing home an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to steer clear of this place. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was nursing, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
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Deer Lodge
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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Nurse Quality
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. In computing our nursing grades, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It scored well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also didn't perform terribly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which turned out to be among its more favorable grades. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is considered to be a fair assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. One of the more critical factors in evaluating inspection reports is deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we want to point out that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years amounting to over $100,000. This typically signifies that a nursing home's bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the next area, this nursing home really did not fare very well in this area either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated just 88.554214 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Deer Lodge Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Deer Lodge, 8.97% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric gauges the percent of long-term residents who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Deer Lodge, 4.88% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care residents who experienced a fall which resulted in serious injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Deer Lodge, 2.93% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic could also be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Deer Lodge, 16.56% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used for several conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Deer Lodge, 14.4% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Deer Lodge, 4.23% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some would argue this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Deer Lodge, 92.91% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Deer Lodge, 15.58% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of decline of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Deer Lodge, 15.72% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Deer Lodge, 1.26 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Deer Lodge, 15.72 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Deer Lodge, 12.39 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Deer Lodge, 77.87% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Deer Lodge Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 1.5 miles away1100 Hollenback Ln Deer Lodge Montana 59722Voluntary non-profit - Private(406) 846-2212