There are two facilities in Avon Park, Florida, so at least you have a few options to choose from. This city's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of B+, so what this city lacks in quantity, it makes up for by having high quality nursing homes. In fact, this city's city grade even surpassed the city grade of nursing homes in the nearby city of Saint Cloud. This is especially impressive in light of the fact that we awarded those facilities in Saint Cloud a city grade of B, which is a good grade in its own right. This place's nursing homes are better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories is available in the next paragraph.
On top of having quality nursing homes overall, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where we gave it an A+. Very few cities performed better in this area. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. In addition, we also awarded this city an A for our long-term care rating. In the other categories we looked at, Avon Park received a grade of B in our short-term care category and a B- in nursing.