Gallatin Rest Home

Gallatin Rest Home is one of just a couple facilities located in Bozeman, Montana. After receiving an overall grade of A, this facility is ranked among the most impressive nursing homes we looked at. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the 25 best nursing homes in Montana. If you look further down this page, you will see this facility's category ratings, which are also quite good.

In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled at short-term care, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country with 66.1 percent of its residents returning home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given a superb grade of A- in our long-term care area. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 96.732025 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. This nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.16 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

In the last category we rated, this facility was given a very favorable grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home topped off a very impressive report card. The nursing score weighs a handful of factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is among the better figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by both of these figures. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.