Holyoke, Massachusetts is a small city with 39,880 people. It has 7 nursing homes, which is a decent selection for a city of this size. We gave the nursing homes in this city a first-rate city grade of A-. In fact, Holyoke is one of the twenty five highest rated cities in all of Massachusetts. This is a reminder that this state has plenty of cities with excellent nursing homes. Finally, this city's category grades were just as strong as its city grade. You can learn more about these in the next paragraph.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, the nursing homes in Holyoke performed extremely well in the category of inspections. In fact, some of its facilities received almost flawless inspection reports this year. As a result, the city received one of our best ratings in that category with an A. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. We also wanted to point out that we awarded Holyoke an A in our long-term care category. Wrapping up its top notch report card, we awarded the city grades of A- and B+ for our nursing and short-term care categories respectively.