Needham, Massachusetts is an average size city with 19,931 people. The city has just 2 nursing homes, which does not offer you too many options. While this place didn't have a ton of nursing homes, this city received a world class city grade of A. For comparison's sake, we also looked at the nursing homes in the nearby city of Boston, which has some good nursing homes of its own. However, we found the facilities in Needham to be in a totally different league than the ones in Boston. Headlining this city's exemplary report card is its nursing grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.
On top of having excellent nursing homes overall, this city really excelled in the area of nursing where the city earned a grade of A. Few cities performed better in this area. High end scores in this category usually mean a city's nursing homes offer impressive levels of staffing. In addition, the city also performed extremely well in our short-term care category, with an A for that area. Wrapping up its phenomenal report card, we gave the city grades of A- and B+ for our inspections and long-term care areas respectively.