St Luke Community Nursing Home
107 6th Ave S W, Ronan MT 59864 · (406) 676-4441 · 51.6% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
St Luke Community Nursing Home is located in Ronan, Montana. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a high-end grade. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the United States. This also proved to be a very consistent nursing home with consistent scores in each of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 75 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
To add to its top-shelf assessments in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its long-term care grade. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination record was superb also. Indeed, it vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This combination proved to be successful as this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.24 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
Building on its high-end profile, this facility also received a strong short-term care grade, with a grade of A. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. This facility offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
In the final area, this nursing home also was awarded an impressive nursing score, with an A-. This completed a very impressive profile. Our nursing grade assesses quite a few components, however, the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the highest figures we found. Furthermore, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as good indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Luke Community Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall which caused severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for many medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. High rates of depression may be a sign a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that maintained mobility. Some experts believe that mobility is important for patients health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is key to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better