There are surprisingly just 3 nursing homes in Lawrence, Massachusetts, servicing a population of 76,383 people. This city's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of A-, so what this place lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. In fact, Lawrence is one of the 500 best cities in the entire nation. This is impressive since we assessed thousands of cities around the nation. Finally, this city's category grades were just as impressive as its overall city grade. You can read more about these in the next paragraph.
To pair with its great overall grade, we awarded this city an A- in our inspections category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. In addition, we also awarded this city an A- in our nursing category. Wrapping up its quality profile, we gave Lawrence a B+ in our long-term care category and a grade of B+ in the area of short-term care. We truly found Lawrence to be very competent everywhere we looked.