There are two nursing homes in Guntersville, Alabama, which at least gives you a few choices. This city received a city grade of B for based on the quality of its nursing homes. This is an average city grade nationally, which is perfectly respectable. This city's impressive report card was highlighted by its nursing homes' inspection ratings, which we will address in the next paragraph.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the facilities in Guntersville performed extremely well in our inspections category. In fact, some of its facilities received almost perfect inspection reports this year. As a result, the city received one of our highest ratings in that area with a grade of A+. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. In addition, we also wanted to emphasize that we awarded Guntersville an A- for our long-term care category. Lastly, we gave the city a C for short-term care and a grade of C in the area of nursing.