With two nursing homes in the city, there are only a couple of choices in Auburn, Maine. This place's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of A, so what this city lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Auburn is ranked number 41 on our list of the best cities to find nursing homes in the nation. This is impressive given that we ranked thousands of cities around the country. Headlining this city's remarkable profile is its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this city performed extremely well in terms of its inspection grade. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received nearly perfect inspection reports this year. As a result, we awarded it one of our best ratings in that category with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. The city also really excelled in the category of long-term care, where we gave it an A. Wrapping up its straight A report card, Auburn were awarded a grade of A for nursing and an A in the area of short-term care.