Albert Lea, Minnesota is an average size city with 21,228 people. The city has just 4 nursing homes, which does not give you too many choices. We gave the nursing homes here a world class city grade of A-. Even with just a few facilities, this is still a great achievement. We were impressed enough with Albert Lea to rate it as one of the top twenty five rated cities in the state of Minnesota. This datapoint is also a reminder that Minnesota has plenty of cities with excellent nursing homes. The best aspect of this city's impressive profile was its nursing homes' short-term care scores. Short-term care grades are discussed in the following paragraph.
In addition to having quality nursing homes overall, this city really excelled in our short-term care category where we gave it a grade of A. Very few cities fared this well in this area. Short-term care grades this high are a good sign for the quality of rehabilitation at the nursing homes in this city. In addition, Albert Lea also really excelled in the area of nursing, where we gave it a grade of A-. Rounding out its strong report card, Albert Lea received a B+ for inspections and a B+ for long-term care. Albert Lea really did not have any weak links as far as we could tell.