West Plains, Missouri is a medium size city with 24,908 people. It features only 3 nursing homes, which does not give you too many choices. We awarded the nursing homes here a very good city grade of B+. Even with only a few nursing homes, this is still a high quality city grade. We were so impressed with West Plains that we rated it as one of the top ten rated cities in all of Missouri. This place's nursing homes are stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our major areas discussed below. Additional information about these categories is available in the next paragraph.
As mentioned above, this city's nursing homes received a strong overall grade, but we also wanted to point out that some of the city's nursing homes received nearly perfect health inspections in recent years. We awarded West Plains an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. In addition, West Plains received a grade of B in our nursing category. Rounding out its quality profile, West Plains received a B for its short-term care score and a B in long-term care. We found this city to be very competent in every category.