With a population of 163,415 people, Topeka, Kansas is relatively large metropolitan area. There are 14 nursing homes in the city, which gives you plenty of options to choose from. The nursing homes in this city received a good city grade of B. This is as good or better than the city grade of the average city in the nation. This place's nursing homes are better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of our major areas discussed below. Additional information about its category grades is available in the next paragraph.
On top of performing well overall, the nursing homes in Topeka also received very good inspection reports this year. For this reason, we gave Topeka one of our higher scores in this area with a B+. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. In addition, the city also received one of our higher scores in the area of long-term care, with a B. Wrapping up its report card, we gave the city a B in our short-term care category and a B in the area of nursing. We really found Topeka to be strong in each category we assessed.