Newark, New Jersey offers only five nursing homes to choose from, so you don't have too many options to choose from. This place's limited supply of nursing homes were awarded a quality city grade of B. We found this city grade was just as good as the city grade of B we gave the nearby city of East Orange. Both cities have some strong nursing homes. This city's profile was also very consistent as it didn't receive a single weak category grade either. You can learn more about these in the next paragraph.
In addition to having excellent nursing homes overall, this city really excelled in the area of inspections, where we gave it an A-. Not many cities fared this well in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. In addition, Newark received a B in our nursing category. In the other categories we looked at, the city were awarded a grade of B- for short-term care and a B- in long-term care.