Nursing Homes in Lawrence, Massachusetts

There are three facilities in Lawrence, Massachusetts, which at least gives you a few choices. We awarded the nursing homes here an excellent city grade of B+. Even with just a couple of nursing homes, this is still a great sign. For comparison's sake, we also assessed the nursing homes in the nearby city of Andover, which received a city grade of B-. While there is nothing wrong with this grade, we found the nursing homes Lawrence to be better on the whole. This city's nursing homes are stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found in the next section.

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city performed spectacularly well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded its facilities an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Lawrence performed remarkably well in the area of nursing as well. As a result, Lawrence received an A- in that area. Rounding out its report card, we gave the city a B for its long-term care grade and a B for short-term care. We truly found this city to be very competent everywhere we looked.