With a population of 56,734 people, New Baltimore, Michigan is a relatively small city. There are just 2 nursing homes there, which doesn't offer you too many options. We gave the nursing homes in this city an excellent city grade of A-. Even with only a couple of facilities, this is still a great achievement. We found this city grade to be considerably better than the city grade of B- received by the nearby city of Hamtramck. Both cities have some quality nursing homes, but New Baltimore appears to be in a totally different league. This city's strong report card was highlighted by its nursing homes' inspection grades, which you can find in the next paragraph.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this city performed extremely well in the area of inspections. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received virtually perfect inspection reports this year. As a result, New Baltimore received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. In addition, the city performed especially well in our nursing category as well. As a result, we awarded New Baltimore an A in this area. Rounding out its phenomenal profile, this place were awarded an A- in our short-term care category and a grade of B for long-term care.