Montana Mental Health Nursing Home

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in nursing. We gave it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing grades are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- in that category, which is one of our highest grades. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who returned 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.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more impressive scores. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 76 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on our last category of inspections, this facility received an F here. This grade was detrimental to this nursing home's overall grade. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This often signifies that a poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.