Wilmington, Massachusetts is a medium size city with 22,325 people. It has only 2 nursing homes, which doesn't provide you with too many choices. This small group of nursing homes earned on average an overall grade of B, which is a perfectly respectable grade for the city. By way of comparison, we awarded the nursing homes in the local city of Medford a city grade of C, which is a below average score. Naturally, we found the nursing homes in Wilmington to be in a totally different league than the ones in Medford. This place's nursing homes were better in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories is available in the next section.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. The city also fared well in the area of health short-term care with a grade of B+. In the last two categories, Wilmington earned a B for its long-term care rating and a B- in the area of nursing.