With 137,067 people, Metairie, Louisiana is a moderately populated city. Surprisingly, there are just 4 nursing homes in the city, which is not quite as many as we expected in a city of this size. This relatively small group of facilities earned on average an overall grade of B, which is a very solid score for the city. By way of comparison, we gave the facilities in the local city of Kenner a city grade of D, which is a far below average grade. Naturally, we found the nursing homes in Metairie to be in a totally different league than the ones in Kenner. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its nursing homes' inspection ratings, which we will address in the next paragraph.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, many of the facilities in Metairie performed spectacularly well in the category of inspections. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received almost flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded Metairie one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A+. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. In addition, the city also really excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received an A-. Finally, the city earned slightly below average grades for our nursing and short-term care categories.