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 Dorchester, which has some good nursing homes of its own. However, we found the facilities in Needham to be even better than the ones in Dorchester. Headlining this city's exemplary report card is its short-term care 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 short-term care 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 physical therapy staffing. In addition, the city also performed extremely well in our nursing category, with an A for that area. Wrapping up its straight A report card, this place earned elite grades in our long-term care and inspections categories respectively.