Wilmington, Delaware is a large city with 215,619 people. It has 15 nursing homes, so you should have plenty of options to choose from. Remarkably, the nursing homes here received an excellent city grade of A-. This is especially impressive when you consider the number of nursing homes in the city. By way of comparison, we awarded the nursing homes in the nearby city of Downingtown a city grade of D, which is a very poor grade. Naturally, we found the facilities in Wilmington to be rated much higher than the ones in Downingtown. This city's strong profile was highlighted by its nursing homes' nursing ratings, which you can find in the next paragraph.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, many of the nursing homes in Wilmington performed extremely well in our nursing category. It received one of our highest ratings in that area with a grade of A-. Nursing grades of this caliber are a favorable sign for the levels of staffing at the facilities in this city. The city also really excelled in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Rounding out its phenomenal report card, we gave Wilmington grades of A- and B+ for our inspections and long-term care categories respectively.