With two nursing homes in the city, there are only a few options in Derby, Kansas. With a city grade of B, this city's nursing homes proved to be respectable options. This is as good or better than the city grade of most of the cities in the United States. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
On top of having excellent nursing homes overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where we gave it an A-. Very few cities earned a better grade in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. The city also received an impressive short-term care grade where it received a B+ in this area. In the last two categories, this place earned slightly below average grades for our long-term care and nursing areas.