Iowa City, Iowa is a medium size city with 77,509 people. The city features just 3 nursing homes, which is fewer than we expected in a city of this size. We gave the nursing homes here a very good city grade of B+. Even with just a couple of nursing homes, this is still an impressive city grade. We also assessed the facilities in the nearby city of Muscatine, which received a city grade of C. We found Iowa City to be a far better option. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
To go along with its great overall grade, we awarded this city a grade of A- for our short-term care category. With a short-term care grade of this caliber we would expect most of the nursing homes here to offer quality rehabilitation services. In addition, we also wanted to emphasize that some of its facilities received almost perfect health inspections in recent years. For this reason, we awarded the city an A- in this category. Wrapping up its strong report card, the city earned a B+ for nursing and a B for long-term care. This place really didn't have any weak links based on our assessment.