Lithonia, Georgia is an average size city with 90,178 people. The city has just one nursing home, which is surprising in a city of this size. Sadly, this nursing home didn't fare well in our assessment. We awarded it a grade of D, which is a very weak grade. Nationally, most nursing homes received a much higher grade than this facility. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its nursing homes' category scores. This city's nursing homes actually fared well in the area of inspections for instance.
While its overall rating was terrible, we awarded this city's lone nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This city received its second best score in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category, which is decent. In the other categories we looked at, the city earned rock bottom grades for our long-term care and nursing categories respectively.