With two nursing homes in the city, you only have a couple of options to choose from in Northport, Alabama. This city's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of A-, so what this place lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Northport is one of the 500 best cities in the United States. This is impressive since we assessed thousands of cities around the nation. Finally, this city's category grades were every bit as impressive as its overall city grade. You can learn more about these in the next paragraph.
In addition to having quality nursing homes on the whole, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Very few cities fared this well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. In addition, we also awarded this city an A in our short-term care rating. Rounding out its phenomenal profile, the city received grades of A- and B+ for our long-term care and nursing areas respectively.