Bethesda, Maryland is a medium size city with 80,090 people. The city features just 2 nursing homes, which is fewer than we expected in a city of this size. This city's limited supply of nursing homes were awarded a strong city grade of B. In fact, this place's city grade was far better than the city grade of nursing homes in the nearby city of District Heights. While this grade are not that bad, we found Bethesda to be on a whole other level. Finally, Bethesda has the prestigious distinction of being the twelfth best city in all of Maryland according to our ratings.
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 almost perfect inspection reports this year. As a result, we awarded Bethesda one of our highest grades in that category with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. The city earned a B for its. In the last two categories, Bethesda earned slightly below average grades for our short-term care and long-term care areas.