There is only one nursing home located in Hamden, Connecticut, providing for a relatively small population of 60,966 people. Fortunately, its only nursing home received an excellent overall grade of A-. We were so impressed with Hamden that we rated it as one of the ten highest rated cities in all of Connecticut. The best part of this facility's strong report card is its short-term care grade. Short-term care grades are discussed in the following paragraph.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this city's only nursing home performed especially well in our short-term care category. Consequently, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A-. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. We also awarded this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. Rounding out its profile, this place were awarded a B+ for its nursing rating and a B+ in the area of long-term care. This city didn't have any weak links as far as we could tell.