With a population of 18,890 people, La Plata, Maryland is a relatively small city. There are only 2 nursing homes there, which does not offer you too many options to choose from. These nursing homes in this city earned this city a good city grade of B. This is an average city grade nationally, which is perfectly respectable. This city's impressive report card was highlighted by its nursing homes' inspection reports, which is addressed in the next section.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, many of the nursing homes in La Plata performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded La Plata an A- for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. In addition, La Plata performed especially well in our nursing category as well. Consequently, we awarded it an A- in this area. In the other categories we looked at, we awarded the city slightly below average grades for our short-term care and long-term care categories.