Faith Lutheran Home

Faith Lutheran Home is a small non-profit nursing home in Wolf Point, Montana. This turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is the most impressive score we offer. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top ten percentile of all nursing homes in the United States. We also gave this facility strong scores in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A+. Few places performed this well in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home offers high levels of nursing care, averaging 4 hours per resident each day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Finally, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

The third category we looked at is long-term care. Contributing to its superb resume, this facility also performed well in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A for the area. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.87 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we rated is short-term care, where this facility was given an A-. This completed a first-rate profile. Few facilities received an A- or higher in all four categories. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home rather than remaining at the nursing home permanently.