With 67,084 people, Meridian, Mississippi is a relatively small city. There are 5 nursing homes there, which gives you some options. We awarded the nursing homes here a first-rate city grade of A-. Even with just a few facilities, this is still quite an accomplishment. In fact, Meridian is one of the 250 best cities in the United States. This is impressive given that we ranked thousands of cities around the country. This city's report card was also very consistent as it did not receive a single weak category grade either. You can read more about these in the next section.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the nursing homes in Meridian performed especially well in our inspections category. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received nearly flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded Meridian one of our best grades in that category with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. The city also performed spectacularly well in our long-term care category, where it received an A- for that category. Rounding out its impressive profile, we gave the city a B+ for its nursing rating and a B in short-term care. We found this city to be very competent everywhere we looked.