Goshen, Indiana is an average size city with 56,775 people. The city has just 4 nursing homes, which doesn't provide you with too many options. This small group of facilities earned on average an overall grade of B, which is a quality score for the city. We found this city grade to be considerably better than the city grade of C received by the nearby city of Battle Creek. Although that isn't an awful grade, Goshen appears to be on a whole other level. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, many of the facilities in Goshen performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded its facilities a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. In addition, the city received a grade of B+ in the area of short-term care. In our final two categories, the city received slightly below average grades in our nursing and long-term care categories.