With 17,969 people, El Dorado, Kansas is a small city. There are only 2 nursing homes in the city, which doesn't provide you with too many options. Unfortunately, the nursing homes here received a city grade of D, which is a very weak grade at the city level. Despite this alarming city grade, El Dorado still had one nursing home that didn't receive a terrible grade. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this city's profile is its impressive inspection grade. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category grades
While its overall grade was abysmal, this city's nursing homes performed much better in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. We also wanted to point out that we gave El Dorado a B- in nursing. Lastly, this place earned a grade of B- in our short-term care category and a grade of D in long-term care. Even with an otherwise respectable profile, a long-term care grade of this caliber may be concerning for some prospective residents.