Wilmington, Delaware is a large city with 215,619 people. It has 16 nursing homes, so you should have plenty of options to choose from. Impressively, the nursing homes here received an excellent city grade of B+. 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 Havertown a city grade of B-, which is not a bad grade. However, we found the facilities in Wilmington to be rated much higher than the ones in Havertown. This city's nursing homes are better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found in the next paragraph.
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this city's nursing homes a grade of A- in our nursing rating. With a nursing rating of this caliber we'd expect most of the facilities in Wilmington to have impressive levels of nurse staffing. In addition, Wilmington also performed extremely well in our short-term care category, where it received an A- for this category. Rounding out its profile, the city were awarded a B+ for its inspections grade and a B in long-term care. Wilmington really did not have any weak links as far as we could tell.