Nursing Homes in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Portsmouth, New Hampshire is a medium size city with 21,532 people. It has just 2 nursing homes, which does not offer you too many options to choose from. The nursing homes here received a first-rate city grade of A-. Even with only a few nursing homes, this is still a great achievement. By way of comparison, we gave the facilities in the nearby city of Nashua a city grade of B-, which is not a bad grade. Nevertheless, we found the nursing homes in Portsmouth to be on a whole other level than the ones in Nashua. We were especially pleased to find one first-class nursing home in the city. You probably can not go wrong starting your search with this nursing home.

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, most of the facilities in Portsmouth performed remarkably well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded its facilities an A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. In addition, we also awarded this city a grade of A- for our short-term care rating. Rounding out its excellent report card, Portsmouth were awarded an A- for its long-term care rating and a B+ in the area of nursing.