Nursing Homes in Spencer, Iowa

Spencer, Iowa is a medium size city with 12,691 people. The city features only 2 nursing homes, which does not provide you with too many choices. We awarded the nursing homes here an excellent city grade of A. Even with only a couple of facilities, this is still quite an accomplishment. In fact, this is ranked number 157 on our list of the best cities for nursing homes in the United States. This is impressive considering we ranked thousands of cities around the nation. Not surprisingly, Spencer has 2 nursing homes that were awarded a grade of A- or better. Few cities offer multiple nursing homes of this quality.

This city's nursing homes received a great overall grade, but we especially wanted to emphasize that some of its facilities received almost flawless health inspections the past few years. We gave Spencer an elite grade of A for this area. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. In addition, we also awarded this city an A for our nursing rating. Wrapping up its straight A report card, this place were awarded a grade of A- for its short-term care rating and an A- in long-term care.