With 56,439 people, Altamonte Springs, Florida is a relatively small city. There are only 2 nursing homes in the city, which doesn't offer you too many choices. We awarded the nursing homes here an excellent city grade of B+. Even with only a few nursing homes, this is still a great sign. This is a better score than most of the cities in the United States. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the nursing homes in Altamonte Springs performed remarkably well in terms of its inspection grade. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received almost flawless inspection reports this year. As a result, Altamonte Springs received one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. In addition, Altamonte Springs also performed extremely well in the area of long-term care, where we gave it an A- for that area. Lastly, this place earned a B in our short-term care category and a B- in the area of nursing.