Montana Mental Health Nursing Home

The main thing salvaging this facility's profile is its elite nursing grade. We gave this facility a grade of A in that category. The nursing rating features many factors. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it one of our highest scores in that category with a score of A-. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility's next best category ended up being its long-term care score, where it received a grade of B-. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. We were a bit alarmed this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 78.24428 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on the final category of government inspections, we gave this facility a D for our inspection category. This proved to be its worst category grade, particularly in light of some of the more impressive scores referenced above. Nevertheless, since the inspection data is compiled by an independent government inspector, we weight it heavily in our overall grade. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed large government fines recently of more than $100,000. This often indicates that a facility's bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.