Eastern Montana Veterans Home

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this facility an A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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.

This nursing home also was given a very strong long-term care score. In fact, this ended up being this facility's second strongest category score. In that area, this facility received a score of A-. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.47644 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also was awarded a impressive short-term care grade. Indeed, this is its third best category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In the last area, this nursing home also was given an impressive nursing rating, with a grade of A-. This completed a very strong profile. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.