Nursing Homes in Ames, Iowa

There are three facilities in Ames, Iowa, which at least gives you a few choices. We gave the nursing homes here a phenomenal city grade of A. Even with only a few facilities, this is still a great achievement. This city is ranked number 157 on our list of the best cities to find nursing homes in the nation. This is impressive considering we ranked thousands of cities around the nation. Lastly, this city's category grades were every bit as strong as its city grade. You can learn more about these in the next paragraph.

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the facilities in Ames performed remarkably well in the area of inspections. In fact, some of its facilities received almost perfect inspection reports this year. Consequently, the city received one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. In addition, the city performed spectacularly well in the area of long-term care as well. As a result, we awarded it an A+ in that category. Rounding out its top notch profile, the city were awarded an A- for nursing and a B+ for short-term care.