With 33,269 people, Derry, New Hampshire is a small city. Unfortunately, there is only one nursing home in the city. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a a respectable grade. This city is one of the top ten cities in New Hampshire according to our rankings. The best part of this place's profile was its remarkable inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
This city's sole nursing home received a fairly ordinary overall grade, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly perfect health inspections in recent years. We awarded it an elite grade of A- in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This city's next best category was short-term care, where we gave it a B-. Lastly, the city received slightly below average grades for our long-term care and nursing areas.