Nursing Homes in Augusta, Georgia

With 202,193 people, Augusta, Georgia is a fairly large metropolitan area. There are 10 nursing homes in the city, which gives you plenty of options. These facilities received on average an overall grade of B, which is a very solid rating for the city. This is as good or better than the city grade of most of the cities in the country. The best aspect of Augusta's impressive report card was its nursing homes' inspection grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, many of the facilities in Augusta performed extremely well in terms of its inspection grade. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received nearly perfect inspection reports this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that area with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. The city also really excelled in the area of long-term care, where we gave it an A-. Lastly, the city were awarded a grade of B- in our nursing category and a B- in the area of short-term care.