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Montana Assisted Living Staffing Requirements (2025): The Truth About Categories A, B & C What Families Actually Need to Know — Without the Confusion If you have spent any time researching Montana assisted living, you’ve probably heard two things: 1. “Montana doesn’t have required staff-to-resident ratios.” 2. Someone still insists there must be “one awake staff 24/7” or “an RN on-site 8 hours a day for Category C.” Both of those statements are partly right — and partly wron

About This Series: Montana Assisted Living Exposed  is a 5-week insider series created to protect Montana families from the most common — and most costly — senior-care mistakes. Each week, we break down one hidden issue that families never hear from facilities: licensing loopholes, state surveys, staffing shortages, resident rights, and compliance questions every family should be asking. Our mission is simple:  give you the same tools and insights we use to safely place senio

Two weeks ago, we got a call from a son in Bozeman Montana whose voice was shaking so badly he could hardly get the words out. His father, once a strong, quiet, dependable man had walked out of the house in the middle of the night. 12:30AM. Snow on the ground. Slippers on his feet. No coat. No sense of where he was. A neighbor spotted him slowly moving down the street, confused and scared. When the son finally opened the door and saw his dad standing there, shivering and diso

Graceful Transitions – Veterans Day 2025 Final Remembrance   We saved the most powerful story in the entire Library of Congress Veterans History Project for the very end of our Veterans Day series.   He was 19 when the landmine turned him into a human torch. Both legs gone. Both eyes gone. Doctors gave him six hours to live.   Instead, blind and bleeding, Marine Corporal William “Billy” H. Smith crawled 200 yards through a burning Vietnamese rice paddy — dragging his screamin