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Southwest Montana Veterans Home

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
Jan 22: A-Feb 22: A-Mar 22: A-Apr 22: AMay 22: AJun 22: AAug 22: A-Sep 22: A-Oct 22: B+Nov 22: B+Jan 23: B+Feb 23: B+Mar 23: B+Apr 23: AJun 23: AJul 23: AAug 23: ASep 23: AOct 23: ANov 23: A
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65 Veterans Circle,
Butte MT 59701

(406) 792-3100

70.33% estimated occupancy 1

Located in Butte, Montana, Southwest Montana Veterans Home is one of four available facilities in this city. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the most impressive facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires excellent scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the United States. If you look below, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which are also impressive.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - Federal

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A for inspections. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

This nursing home also was superb in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A. Very few facilities received a better grade in this category. Our short-term care ratings are vital for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In our final area, we awarded this facility a grade of A for our long-term care grade. This wrapped up a very impressive report card. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 65.58442 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Southwest Montana Veterans Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 14.29% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 1.3% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who have had a fall which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be a sign of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 9.59% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision minimizes the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 14.79% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used to treat a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 7.64% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically given to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: F

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 34.56% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: F

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 72.93% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 15.17% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Some believe that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 20.33% of Residents

This indicates the percentage of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to preserving the physical health of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 20.33% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Southwest Montana Veterans Home, 73.53% of Resident

This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation performance.

Scores for Butte, MT

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=275156