With just two nursing homes in the city, you only have a couple of options in Roanoke, Alabama. The nursing homes in this city received an excellent city grade of A. Even with just a couple of facilities, this is still quite an achievement. In fact, this ended up being the fourth best city in the state of Alabama according to our ratings. Headlining this city's exemplary report card is its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, the nursing homes in Roanoke performed extremely well in our inspections category. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received virtually flawless inspection reports this year. As a result, we awarded Roanoke one of our best ratings in that area with an A. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. We also awarded Roanoke an A in our short-term care rating. Wrapping up its straight A report card, this place received elite grades for our long-term care and nursing categories as well.