With 22,335 people, Pascagoula, Mississippi is a small city. There are only 2 nursing homes in the city, which does not offer you too many choices. We gave the nursing homes in this city a strong city grade of B+. Even with only a couple of facilities, this is still a high quality city grade. By way of comparison, we gave the facilities in the nearby city of Ocean Springs a city grade of C, which is a below average score. Clearly, we found the nursing homes in Pascagoula to be rated much higher than the ones in Ocean Springs. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its nursing homes' inspection scores, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city's nursing homes performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded its facilities an A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. The city also really excelled in the category of nursing, where we gave it an A-. Rounding out its phenomenal report card, the city earned an A- in our long-term care category and a B+ in short-term care.