Medilodge of Montrose

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in the area of nursing care, with an impressive grade of A in this category. Our nursing rating analyzes many subcategories, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

One of this nursing home's better category scores came in the area of short-term care. This turned out to be its second best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. Our short-term care scores are likely most critical for individuals needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

This nursing home's next highest area turned out to be long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of C. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.27536 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Unfortunately, this nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection grade. We gave it a grade of just just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a nursing home's government inspections. We weight poor inspection ratings heavily in our assessment. Since the inspections are completed by independent inspectors, we consider this data to be reliable. One of the more critical factors in evaluating inspection reports is deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by inspectors had the potential to cause actual harm to patients. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this facility received significant government fines recently of more than $100,000. This typically signifies that a poor track record spanned multiple years.