With just two nursing homes in the city, you only have a couple of options in Dedham, Massachusetts. The nursing homes here received a first-rate city grade of A-. Even with only a couple of facilities, this is still quite an accomplishment. We found this city grade was considerably better than the city grade of B received by the nearby city of Randolph. Both cities have some quality nursing homes, but Dedham appears to be in a totally different league. In particular, we wanted to point out that there is one really elite nursing home here. This is most likely where we'd begin our search here.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the facilities in Dedham performed extremely well in the area of inspections. In fact, some of its facilities received almost flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. In addition, Dedham also performed spectacularly well in the area of long-term care, where it earned a grade of A- for this category. Rounding out its straight A profile, this place earned top notch grades in our nursing and short-term care areas as well.