With 16,272 people, Guntersville, Alabama is a small city. There are only 2 nursing homes there, which doesn't provide you with too many choices. This city's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of B+, so what this city lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Even in a state with many good places to find nursing homes, we ranked Guntersville as one of the top twenty five rated cities in the state of Alabama. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
On top of having excellent nursing homes on the whole, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Not many cities earned a better grade in this category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. In addition, the city also performed remarkably well in the area of long-term care, where it earned a grade of A- for this category. In the last two categories, the city received a B- for nursing and a B- for short-term care.