Elkhorn Healthcare & Rehabilitation

Elkhorn Healthcare & Rehabilitation is the lone option we identified in Clancy, Montana. Featuring an overall grade of B, this facility is a great option. Based on our assessment, you could do much worse than this nursing home. This nursing home was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, this place also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A-. Not many nursing homes performed better in that category. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also earned a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. This place performed better than most nursing homes in the country with 54.9 percent of its patients returning home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning patients even once per day.

Our next area is long-term care, in which we awarded this facility a grade of B- in that category. Our long-term care scores are more important for residents needing more traditional services associated with personal care. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 97.872345 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.