With 84,106 people, Meridian, Idaho is a moderately populated city. Surprisingly, there are just 3 nursing homes there, which is not quite as many as we expected in a city of this size. We gave the nursing homes in this city a superb city grade of A-. Even with just a couple of facilities, this is still quite an accomplishment. Meridian is ranked as one of the 500 best cities in the United States. This is impressive given that we ranked thousands of cities around the country. This city's report card was also very consistent as it did not receive a single weak category grade either. You can read more about these in the next section.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the nursing homes in Meridian performed especially well in the area of short-term care. We awarded it one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A. High end scores in this category generally mean the city's nursing homes have favorable physical therapy staffing levels. The city also performed spectacularly well in our inspection category, where it earned an A- for this category. Rounding out its excellent report card, this place earned an A- in our nursing category and a B in long-term care.