With 13 nursing homes to select from in Fort Myers, Florida, you ought to be able to find a good one. Impressively, this place's nursing homes received a first-rate city grade of A-. A city grade in this range is uncommon for a city with so many nursing homes. This is a well above average grade with the overwhelming majority of cities receiving a lower score. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its nursing homes' inspection grades, which you can find in the next paragraph.
On top of having excellent nursing homes on the whole, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Few cities fared this well in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. We also wanted to emphasize that we awarded the city an A- in our short-term care rating. Wrapping up its first-rate profile, the city earned grades of A- and B+ for our nursing and long-term care categories respectively.