With 29,131 people, Voorhees, New Jersey is a small city. There are just 4 nursing homes in the city, which doesn't offer you too many options. Despite not having a ton of nursing homes, this city received an excellent city grade of A-. By way of comparison, we gave the nursing homes in the nearby city of Blackwood a city grade of B, which is also a good score. Nevertheless, we found the facilities in Voorhees to be a slightly better option on average than the ones in Blackwood. The best aspect of this city's impressive profile is its nursing homes' inspection grades. We discuss inspections in the next section
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the facilities in Voorhees performed especially well in the area of inspections. In fact, some of its facilities received nearly flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded it one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. The city also performed spectacularly well in our nursing category, where it earned a grade of A for that category. Rounding out its first-rate profile, this place earned grades of A- and B for our short-term care and long-term care areas respectively.