Another nursing home in the state announced a voluntary closure, bringing the total to eight skilled nursing facilities that shut their doors this year.
We told them if they move forward with a COVID vaccine mandate on healthcare workers, it is going to lead to the shut down of rural healthcare here in Montana.
In the past six months, Montana has lost approximately 10 percent of its nursing home beds throughout the state as seven nursing homes have announced they are closing because they can’t continue to sustain a loss of more than $100 per day on each resident.
Seven nursing homes have been forced to close across Montana, nursing homes blame the state s Medicaid daily reimbursement rates, which are far below the daily costs of care.