There are just 2 nursing homes located in Malden, Missouri, providing for a population of 6,359 people. This city's nursing homes received a first-rate city grade of A-, so what this city lacks in quantity, it makes up for by having high quality nursing homes. For comparison's sake, we also assessed the facilities in the nearby city of Cape Girardeau, which received a city grade of B+. As impressed as we were with the nursing homes in Cape Girardeau, we found Malden to be rated even higher. The best aspect of Malden's strong profile is its nursing homes' inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, many of the facilities in Malden performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded its facilities a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. In addition, Malden also performed spectacularly well in our nursing category, where we gave it an A- for that category. Wrapping up its top notch profile, Malden received grades of A- and B for our long-term care and short-term care categories respectively.