Libby Care Center — Skilled Nursing Facility Profile (CCN #275040)

Libby, Montana · CCN 275040 · Phone: 4062936285 · 101 beds · Ownership: For Profit - Limited Liability Company

Libby Care Center is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility (CCN 275040) in Libby, Montana. It holds a CMS overall Five-Star rating of 5 of 5 stars on CMS Care Compare. FileFlo scores its CMS survey-readiness at 87/100 (Survey-Ready).

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Compliance Indicator: 87/100 — Survey-Ready

About Libby Care Center

Libby Care Center is a Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facility in Libby, Montana, operating under CMS Certification Number (CCN) 275040. 101-bed facility. For Profit - Limited Liability Company. Part of the Cascadia Healthcare chain. The facility is required to comply with the Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities at 42 CFR Part 483.

Libby Care Center has held its Medicare/Medicaid certification for approximately 54 years (certification date on file: 1971-10-01). Long-tenured facilities (15+ years) often have established F-tag remediation playbooks and a deeper standard-survey trail; newly-certified facilities (under 3 years) are subject to a different initial survey cadence under 42 CFR 488.308.

Local market context (Lincoln County): Libby Care Center shares Lincoln County with 1 other Medicare-certified SNF in our Montana sample. Two-facility counties typically see direct competitive comparison on Care Compare ratings during discharge-planner decisions.

CMS Five-Star Quality Ratings

CMS publishes Five-Star ratings for nursing homes monthly, drawn from the most recent three years of standard surveys, complaint surveys, and Minimum Data Set (MDS) submissions.

Long-Stay vs Short-Stay Quality Measures

Long-Stay Quality Measure rating: ★★★★★ (5 of 5). Long-stay measures cover residents in the facility 100+ days and include indicators like residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury, residents whose ability to move independently worsened, and residents with a urinary tract infection.

Short-Stay Quality Measure rating: ★★★★☆ (4 of 5). Short-stay measures cover post-acute residents discharged within 100 days and include rehospitalization within 30 days, successful return to community, and improvement in function.

Differentiating long-stay from short-stay QMs matters for placement decisions — a facility with strong short-stay QMs may still underperform on long-stay metrics, and vice versa.

Compliance Red Flags

Libby Care Center has none of the four CMS-published red-flag indicators active at the most recent publish: not on the Special Focus Facility list, no Abuse Icon on Care Compare, no overdue inspection flag, and no recent change-of-ownership flag. Absence of these flags does not mean the facility is deficiency-free — see the survey history below.

Survey History and Deficiencies

Recent health deficiencies cited at last standard survey: 4. National average for facilities of this size is approximately 8 deficiencies per cycle. In its most recent reporting cycle, Libby Care Center received 1 CMS fine totaling $22,720. Last documented standard health survey: 2025-06-30. CMS conducts standard surveys at most every 15 months for SNFs, with substandard-quality findings triggering more frequent revisits.

Infection Control and Deficiency Weighting

CMS health survey weighted score: 48. The weighted score multiplies deficiency severity (A-L) by scope (isolated, pattern, widespread); higher weighted scores translate directly into the Health Inspection star rating tier breakpoints CMS publishes monthly.

CMS Enforcement Actions

Total enforcement penalties assessed in the most recent reporting window: $1. This figure aggregates Civil Money Penalties (CMPs), DPNA-equivalent revenue impacts, and other monetary remedies under 42 CFR Part 488 Subpart F.

Staffing Detail

At today's staffing levels, Libby Care Center would not meet the cadre-specific minimums scheduled to take effect on the May 2029 timeline under 89 FR 40876: RN HPRD is 0.519 vs the 0.55 floor, a 0.03-hour gap and nurse-aide HPRD is 1.816 vs the 2.45 floor, a 0.63-hour gap. Closing this gap typically requires either net new hires at the specific cadre, shifted scheduling that reallocates existing FTEs to direct-care hours, or a hardship exemption application under 42 CFR 483.35.

Total nurse staffing: 2.996 hours per resident day (HPRD), which is 0.48 hours below the 3.48 total HPRD floor scheduled to take effect for rural-facility facilities by May 2029 (89 FR 40876, May 2024); facilities projected to remain below the floor at the effective date must either close the gap, qualify for a hardship exemption, or face citation under 42 CFR 483.35.

Staffing mix: RN 0.519 HPRD, LPN 0.661 HPRD, CNA 1.816 HPRD. The same CMS final rule also phases in cadre-specific minimums of 0.55 RN HPRD and 2.45 nurse aide HPRD on the 2029 timeline; RN-specific shortfalls have historically been the most common single-facility staffing deficiency at standard surveys.

Weekend RN staffing: 0.368 HPRD. Weekend RN coverage is a separately reported CMS measure; facilities with low weekend RN HPRD frequently see resident-acuity-driven adverse events spike on the weekend shift.

Total nurse staff turnover: 35.2% annualized — moderate.

RN-specific turnover: 50% annualized. RN turnover above 50% is the single strongest correlate with QM rating decline in CMS's own internal analyses.

Administrator turnover events in the most recent reporting window: 1. Multiple administrator changes in a 12-month window is associated with substantial leadership-discontinuity risk during the next standard survey.

Chain Context and Facility Type

Libby Care Center is operated as part of Cascadia Healthcare, a chain operating 44 Medicare-certified facilities (CMS chain identifier 118). Chain-operated facilities tend to share corporate compliance staff, standard operating procedures, and survey-prep resources — but also share enforcement exposure when CMS designates a chain-wide issue under the system-wide quality assurance framework.

Provider type designation: Medicare And Medicaid.

The facility is classified by CMS as rural (outside metropolitan statistical areas). Rural SNFs face different challenges — referral pipeline depth, RN availability, ambulance distance for transfers — and CMS applies certain modifiers to the staffing minimums under hardship exemption pathways for rural facilities.

How Libby Care Center Compares to Peers in Montana

Peer comparisons use a same-state cohort of 61 Medicare-certified SNFs, pulled live from CMS Provider Data. The cohort excludes terminated and surrendered certifications.

FileFlo Compliance Indicator

FileFlo's compliance indicator for Libby Care Center is 87/100 (Survey-Ready). The score is derived from publicly published health-deficiency counts, weighted survey scores, infection-control citations, fines, and staffing hours per resident day. It is not a CMS rating. The full survey-readiness audit (covering F-tags from the most recently cited deficiencies, infection control, staffing minimums, MDS accuracy) is at /tools/cms-survey-readiness-score.

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Frequently asked questions about Libby Care Center

What is Libby Care Center's CMS overall Five-Star rating?

Libby Care Center (CCN 275040) holds a CMS overall Five-Star rating of 5 of 5 stars on CMS Care Compare. CMS updates these ratings quarterly from the facility's submitted assessment and claims data.

Is Libby Care Center Medicare-certified, and where is it located?

Libby Care Center is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility (CMS Certification Number 275040) in Libby, Montana.

How survey-ready is Libby Care Center?

FileFlo scores Libby Care Center's CMS survey-readiness at 87/100 (Survey-Ready). This is a FileFlo indicator built from CMS-published data, not an official CMS rating.

Which CMS Conditions of Participation must Libby Care Center meet?

As a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility, Libby Care Center is surveyed against the Conditions of Participation in 42 CFR Part 483 — covering patient/resident rights, assessment and care planning, quality (QAPI), infection control, and aide services. Each CoP section is linked on this page.

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Conditions of Participation Libby Care Center is surveyed against

The 42 CFR Part 483 CoP sections a CMS survey actually checks, in plain English:

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