Lenexa, Kansas is an average size city with 46,932 people. It features just 2 nursing homes, which doesn't provide you with too many choices. The nursing homes in this city received an excellent city grade of B+. Even with just a few nursing homes, this is still an impressive city grade. For comparison's sake, we also assessed the facilities in the nearby city of Liberty, which received a city grade of D. We found Lenexa to be a far better option. Finally, Lenexa has the distinction of being one of the ten highest rated cities in the state of Kansas.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, many of the facilities in Lenexa performed remarkably well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded Lenexa a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. The city also really excelled in the category of long-term care, where we gave it an A-. Wrapping up its quality profile, Lenexa received favorable grades for our nursing and short-term care categories as well.