Southwest Montana Veterans Home is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 2021-08-06. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (406) 792-3100 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Southwest Montana Veterans Home holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 5 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (4★), Staffing (5★), and Quality of Resident Care (5★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 93.1/100, placing it #282 of 14703 facilities nationally and #2 of 61 in Montana. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Southwest Montana Veterans Home receives a reported average of 5 hours 19 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 2 hours 8 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 48 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 23 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 4 hours 38 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 5 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 32.8%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $9,126. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $9,126, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 39.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Southwest Montana Veterans Home ranks 282nd out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 93.1/100), placing it in the top 5% nationwide. Within MT, it ranks 2nd out of 61 nursing homes. In Butte, it ranks 1st out of 4 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 1st of 4. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #782 nationally and RN hours rank #198 nationally (#3 in MT). Our composite quality score of 93.1/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Butte, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/montana/butte/