Mountrail Bethel Home

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in nursing care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 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 place 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 prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded impressive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the facility's second best score. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Sadly, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its long-term care rating, which is not one of our better scores. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Looking to our final category of inspections, we gave this facility a score of just D, which is a relatively poor grade. Our inspection rating is based on the nursing home's government inspections. Since this data is compiled by government inspectors, we place a great deal of weight on it in our overall grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines in excess of $50,000. This often means that CMS inspectors became frustrated after several years of bad inspections.