Newark, New Jersey offers only five nursing homes to choose from, so you don't have too many options to choose from. While this place didn't have a ton of nursing homes, its nursing homes received a world class city grade of A-. In fact, this place's city grade far surpassed the city grade of facilities in the local city of Union. While there is nothing wrong with the nursing homes in Union, we found Newark to be on a whole other level. Lastly, this city's category grades were every bit as impressive as its overall city grade. 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 performed spectacularly well in terms of its nursing grade as well. As a result, we gave it an A- in this area. Rounding out its strong profile, the city received a grade of B+ for short-term care and a B+ in long-term care. This place really did not have any weak links as far as we could tell.