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Benefis Senior Services - Westview

500 15th Ave S, Great Falls, MT 59405 · 34 beds · Non profit - Corporation

The records flag: Medicare's abuse flag is set; 2 citations where a resident was harmed.

Everything here comes from Medicare's own inspection and payroll records. We don't rank facilities or take payment from them.

Medicare overall rating
Much below average · 1 of 5
All nursing staff, hours / resident
3.94
RNs, LPNs and aides · state average 4.82
Weekend RN coverage
−18%
vs weekdays
Staff turnover
state average 55%
Medicare's abuse flag is set
Medicare marks facilities cited for abuse on its own comparison site. This one is currently marked.
2 citations where a resident was harmed
Harm was found, without immediate danger to life.

These are drawn straight from Medicare's records. We report what the record says — we don't rate facilities or judge the care given in them.

Who's actually on the floor

Staffing is the thing most closely tied to day-to-day quality of care, and it's the number families most often never see. This is registered nurses only — a smaller figure than the all-staff total above, because it counts the most highly qualified staff on their own — per resident, per day, comparing an average weekday against an average weekend.

Weekdays
0.71 hrs
Weekends
0.58 hrs
MT average
1.17 hrs

Registered nurses only — hours per resident per day. Longer is better.

Registered nurse coverage is about 18% lower at weekends.

Staff turnover: not reported

High turnover matters because continuity does — a nurse who knows your mother notices when something is different about her. Someone on their second shift doesn't have that baseline.

What inspectors found

State inspectors visit at least once a year and after complaints. Over the last three years this facility received 18 citations. Raw counts mislead, though — a paperwork slip and a resident being harmed both count as one. Here they are by how serious inspectors judged them.

SeverityCitations
Actual harm
A resident was harmed, without immediate danger to life
2
Potential for harm
No one harmed yet, but conditions could allow it
16
No harm
Rule and paperwork findings
0

2 of these came from someone filing a complaint rather than a routine visit — worth weighing differently, because it means a person picked up the phone. All findings are recorded as corrected.

Medicare has issued $13,865 in fines here over the past three years.

Disclosed affiliations

Medicare requires every facility to disclose the people and companies connected to it. Most names below are not owners — they are officers, directors, managers, trustees, and what Medicare calls “additional disclosable parties.” The role beside each name is the one Medicare recorded. This is worth reading because operators tend to run their facilities alike: where the same group stands behind a dozen homes, the record across all twelve tells you more than any single inspection does.

NameRole recorded by MedicareSince
Addison, Thomas Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 03/06/2015
Benefis Health System, INC. Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 07/16/2008
Brady, Shelia Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 07/07/2024
Ginnaty, Rayn Corporate director, Corporate officer, Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 09/15/2013
Houlihan, Bruce Corporate officer, Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 01/09/2002
Krebs, David Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 11/04/2019
Linder, Amy Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Ammondson, Debra Corporate director 01/01/2025
Baker, Jeffrey Corporate director 08/01/2018
Borland, Judy Corporate director 03/01/2012
Ferrin, William Corporate director, Corporate officer 10/01/2008
Hoyer, Heather Corporate director 01/01/2025
Jones, Llewelyn Corporate director 06/01/2016
Loucks, Brian Corporate director, Corporate officer 05/01/2012
Margaris, Melchisedek Corporate director 06/01/2015
Richards, Phillip Corporate director 01/01/2015
Stuart, Dustin Corporate director 01/01/2025
Tierney, Gregory Corporate director 01/01/2021
Bourret, William Owner, partner or trustee of an additional disclosable party 02/03/2026
Cameron, Tanya Owner, partner or trustee of an additional disclosable party 02/04/2026
Goodnow, John Owner, partner or trustee of an additional disclosable party 02/03/2026
Hamilton, Don Owner, partner or trustee of an additional disclosable party 02/04/2026
Hoiland, Shannon Owner, partner or trustee of an additional disclosable party 02/04/2026
Mcallister, Eugene Owner, partner or trustee of an additional disclosable party 02/04/2026
Mcgregor, William Owner, partner or trustee of an additional disclosable party 02/04/2026
Milburn, Mike Owner, partner or trustee of an additional disclosable party 02/04/2026
Moss Adams LLP Additional disclosable party 01/01/2024
Thayer, Eugene Owner, partner or trustee of an additional disclosable party 02/04/2026

Of the 28 parties disclosed here, 0 hold an ownership interest; the rest are recorded in a management, officer, financial, or other disclosable capacity. A percentage is shown only where Medicare published one — for most disclosed parties it publishes none.

Other options nearby

Most families are choosing between whatever is close enough to visit often — and visiting often is itself one of the better protections a resident has. These are the closest 4 facilities.

FacilityMilesRating Nurse hrsWeekend
Benefis Senior Services - Eastview
Great Falls
1.9 2 1.26 −37%
Benefis Senior Services - Grandview
Great Falls
1.9 4 1.94 −15%
Park Place Transitional Care and Rehabilitation
Great Falls
2.3 2 0.99 −32%
Logan Health - Conrad
Conrad
56.4 4 0.67 −50%

Weekend column shows the change in registered-nurse coverage at weekends compared with weekdays.

Worth asking on a visit

Records only tell you so much. These are the questions this facility's particular numbers suggest you ask — go on a weekend if you possibly can.

  1. Who will actually be caring for my relative at 3am on a Saturday — an agency nurse or someone on staff?

Where these numbers come from

All figures are published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Different measures cover different periods — some are considerably older than others, so each is dated separately below rather than under one "last updated" stamp.

Staffing hours
Jan–Mar 2026
Staff turnover
calendar year 2025
Inspections & citations
Jul 2023 – Jun 2026
Fines & penalties
last 3 years
Ownership
as reported to Medicare
Star rating & file release
CMS file dated 1 July 2026

We report what the records say and don't draw conclusions about care quality. If you believe something on this page is wrong — email a correction. It reaches a person, not a form. We check every report, fix what is wrong, and say so on the page; see how we handle corrections. If you work at this facility and our figures disagree with your own records, we want to hear that too.