With a population of 95,216 , Bowie, Maryland is a medium size city. Surprisingly, there are just 2 nursing homes there, which is not quite as many as we expected in a city of this size. The nursing homes here received a very good city grade of B+. Even with only a few facilities, this is still an impressive city grade. In fact, this is one of the top ten rated cities in Maryland. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to having excellent nursing homes overall, this city really excelled in the category of inspections, where we gave it a grade of A+. Few cities fared this well in this area. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Bowie also performed remarkably well in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A for this area. Rounding out its report card, Bowie received strong grades for our nursing and long-term care categories as well.