With a population of 36,980 people, Marion, Iowa is a small city. There are 5 nursing homes there, which provides you with a few options. This place's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of B+, so what this city lacks in quantity, it makes up for by having high quality nursing homes. This is a well above average grade with most places receiving a B or lower. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to having excellent nursing homes on the whole, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Very few cities performed better in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. The city also earned one of our better scores in the area of nursing, with a grade of B+. Rounding out its impressive report card, the city received favorable grades for our short-term care and long-term care areas as well.