Montana Nursing Home Compliance Guide
This compliance guide summarizes CMS-derived records for the 61 skilled nursing facilities listed in Montana. For the 61 facilities with linked history (61 of 61), there are 1,830 cited deficiencies, averaging 30.0 per covered facility; 0 have zero citations in the loaded history, including 20 coded at Immediate Jeopardy severity. F-Tag and category counts describe the loaded records and do not predict a future survey.
Most-Cited Deficiency Categories in Montana
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 444 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 320 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 270 citations
- Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies — 203 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies — 165 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 140 citations
Most-Cited F-Tags in Montana
- F-Tag F0880: Infection Prevention & Control — 104 citations
- F-Tag F0689: Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices — 101 citations
- F-Tag F0657: Care Plan Timing and Revision — 90 citations
- F-Tag F0656: Develop/Implement Comprehensive Care Plan — 68 citations
- F-Tag F0609: Reporting of Alleged Violations — 63 citations
- F-Tag F0600: Free from Abuse and Neglect — 59 citations
- F-Tag F0812: Food Procurement Store/Prepare/Serve-Sanitary — 51 citations
- F-Tag F0610: Investigate/Prevent/Correct Alleged Violations — 50 citations
- F-Tag F0686: Treatment/Services to Prevent/Heal Pressure Ulcers — 44 citations
- F-Tag F0677: ADL Care Provided for Dependent Residents — 39 citations
Sources and methodology
Source: CMS nursing-home Provider Data. POCDesk aggregates citations present in the loaded Health Deficiencies records; it does not create CMS ratings or recommendations. See the editorial standards and methodology and 42 CFR Part 483.
More Montana Compliance Data
- Montana Nursing Home Scorecard
- Montana Compliance Benchmark
- Montana Survey Tracker
- Best Nursing Homes in Montana
Explore POCDesk — Free Nursing Home Compliance Tools
- SNF Scorecard — look up any facility's inspection record
- Nursing Home Compare Tool — side-by-side comparisons
- Skilled Nursing Near Me — find facilities by city & state
- Best Nursing Homes by State — ranked by inspection results
- Survey Tracker — recent CMS survey activity
- F-Tag Reference Guide — every CMS deficiency tag
- Plan of Correction (POC) Complete Guide
- Free AI POC Generator
- Plan of Correction Examples
- CMS Survey Preparation Guide
- Practical SNF Answers
- SNF Compliance Guides
- What Is Skilled Nursing Care?
Official Sources
POCDesk analyzes official government data. Verify any facility's record or read the underlying regulations at these primary sources:
- Medicare.gov Care Compare — CMS's official nursing home comparison tool
- CMS Provider Data Catalog — the raw nursing home inspection & deficiency datasets
- CMS Nursing Home Certification & Compliance — enforcement policy and the Special Focus Facility program
- 42 CFR Part 483 (eCFR) — the federal requirements of participation behind every F-Tag
- National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center — free advocacy help for residents and families