With 10,051 people, Berlin, New Hampshire is a relatively small city. There are just 2 nursing homes there, which does not offer you too many options. The nursing homes here received an excellent city grade of A-. Even with only a couple of nursing homes, this is still a great achievement. In fact, this city's city grade just as good as the city grade of nursing homes in the local city of Lewiston. This is particularly impressive in light of the fact that we gave those facilities in Lewiston a city grade of A-, which is actually a phenomenal grade in its own right. This is also one of the ten highest rated cities in the state of New Hampshire.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city performed remarkably well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded Berlin an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. In addition, we also wanted to emphasize that we awarded Berlin an A- in our long-term care category. Rounding out its profile, this place received a B+ for its nursing score and a B+ in short-term care. Berlin really did not have any weak links as far as we could tell.