With 20,347 people, Gardner, Massachusetts is a relatively small city. There are only 2 nursing homes in the city, which does not offer you too many options to choose from. These nursing homes here earned this city a strong city grade of B. We also wanted to point out that this place's city grade was even better than the city grade of nursing homes in the nearby city of Worcester. The best aspect of this city's strong report card was its nursing homes' inspection ratings. We discuss inspections in the next section
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, many of the facilities in Gardner performed especially well in the area of inspections. In fact, some of its facilities received almost flawless inspection reports this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A-. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. In addition, Gardner earned a grade of B+ for its. Rounding out its report card, this place received strong scores for our short-term care and nursing categories as well.