Eastern Montana Veterans Home

Eastern Montana Veterans Home is a facility located in Glendive, Montana. This city has 8,307 people. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is one of our more impressive ratings. In fact, this facility ended up being one of the top 50 nursing homes in Montana. Scroll down to find this nursing home's category scores, which are also impressive. It's hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great facility is that it received a very impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this was its best category. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the well above average quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this facility, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination record. For example, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.23077 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing score weighs a handful of datapoints, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. With 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place surpassed the vast majority of facilities. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final area we scored is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our higher scores in that area, with a B. While this isn't as dominant as several of this facility's other grades, it is still a fine score. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.