Northborough, Massachusetts has just two nursing homes to choose from, which is not a ton of options. The nursing homes in this city received an excellent city grade of B+. Even with only a few nursing homes, this is still an impressive city grade. This is a well above average grade with the overwhelming majority of places receiving a lower score. Lastly, this city's category grades were just as impressive as its overall city grade. You can read more about these in the next section.
To go along with its great overall grade, we awarded Northborough an A in our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. In addition, Northborough also earned one of our higher grades in our nursing category, with a grade of B+. Rounding out its impressive profile, we gave Northborough favorable grades for our short-term care and long-term care areas as well.