Benefis Senior Services - Westview — Skilled Nursing Facility Profile (CCN #275158)

Great Falls, Montana · CCN 275158 · Phone: 4064555902 · 34 beds · Ownership: Non Profit - Corporation

Benefis Senior Services - Westview is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility (CCN 275158) in Great Falls, Montana. It holds a CMS overall Five-Star rating of 1 of 5 stars on CMS Care Compare. FileFlo scores its CMS survey-readiness at 31/100 (High Risk).

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Compliance Indicator: 31/100 — High Risk

About Benefis Senior Services - Westview

Benefis Senior Services - Westview is a Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facility in Great Falls, Montana, operating under CMS Certification Number (CCN) 275158. 34-bed facility. Non Profit - Corporation. Independent (not part of a multi-facility chain). The facility is required to comply with the Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities at 42 CFR Part 483.

Benefis Senior Services - Westview has held its Medicare/Medicaid certification for approximately 1 year (certification date on file: 2024-07-10). 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 (Cascade County): Benefis Senior Services - Westview operates in Cascade County alongside 3 other Medicare-certified SNFs in our Montana cohort sample. Multi-facility counties create direct cohort comparison pressure — hospital discharge planners typically run side-by-side Care Compare lookups before placement 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: ★☆☆☆☆ (1 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.

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

Abuse Icon present: CMS has applied the Abuse Icon to Benefis Senior Services - Westview's Care Compare listing. The icon flags facilities cited for substantiated abuse, neglect, exploitation, or misappropriation findings under the F600-series Long-Term Care Resident Rights and Abuse / Neglect F-tags within the most recent two survey cycles, where citations met the scope-and-severity threshold defined in CMS Care Compare's Five-Star Quality Rating Methodology. The icon stays in place until the facility completes a full survey cycle with no further qualifying citations.

Survey History and Deficiencies

Recent health deficiencies cited at last standard survey: 13. National average for facilities of this size is approximately 8 deficiencies per cycle. In its most recent reporting cycle, Benefis Senior Services - Westview received 1 CMS fine totaling $13,865. Last documented standard health survey: 2025-05-20. 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: 82. 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, Benefis Senior Services - Westview would not meet the cadre-specific minimums scheduled to take effect on the May 2027 timeline under 89 FR 40876: nurse-aide HPRD is 1.879 vs the 2.45 floor, a 0.57-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: 3.166 hours per resident day (HPRD), which is 0.31 hours below the 3.48 total HPRD floor scheduled to take effect for non-rural facilities by May 2027 (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 0.681 HPRD, LPN 0.605 HPRD, CNA 1.879 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 2027 timeline; RN-specific shortfalls have historically been the most common single-facility staffing deficiency at standard surveys.

Weekend RN staffing: 0.731 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.

Chain Context and Facility Type

Benefis Senior Services - Westview is independently operated (not part of a multi-facility chain). Independent SNFs typically rely on internal compliance staff or contracted consultants rather than corporate-level survey-prep teams; this affects both how quickly Plans of Correction are produced and how F-tag remediation is documented across multiple shifts.

Provider type designation: Medicare And Medicaid.

The facility is classified by CMS as urban (within a metropolitan statistical area). Urban SNFs typically face higher acuity post-acute admissions, more competitive labor markets, and stricter local-jurisdiction infection control requirements layered on top of federal CoPs.

How Benefis Senior Services - Westview 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 Benefis Senior Services - Westview is 31/100 (High Risk). 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 Benefis Senior Services - Westview

What is Benefis Senior Services - Westview's CMS overall Five-Star rating?

Benefis Senior Services - Westview (CCN 275158) holds a CMS overall Five-Star rating of 1 of 5 stars on CMS Care Compare. CMS updates these ratings quarterly from the facility's submitted assessment and claims data.

Is Benefis Senior Services - Westview Medicare-certified, and where is it located?

Benefis Senior Services - Westview is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility (CMS Certification Number 275158) in Great Falls, Montana.

How survey-ready is Benefis Senior Services - Westview?

FileFlo scores Benefis Senior Services - Westview's CMS survey-readiness at 31/100 (High Risk). This is a FileFlo indicator built from CMS-published data, not an official CMS rating.

Which CMS Conditions of Participation must Benefis Senior Services - Westview meet?

As a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility, Benefis Senior Services - Westview 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 Benefis Senior Services - Westview is surveyed against

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

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