With three nursing homes in the city, you only have a couple of options in Amsterdam, New York. We gave this city a city grade of B- based on the quality of its nursing homes. We found this city grade is considerably better than the city grade of C received by the nearby city of Utica. Although that isn't a terrible grade, Amsterdam certainly appears to be a better bet. You can continue reading to find more information about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
This city's nursing homes received a fairly ordinary overall grade, however, we really want to emphasize that some of its facilities nearly perfect health inspections in recent years. We gave them an elite grade of A in this category. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. In addition, the city also received an impressive long-term care score where it received a grade of B in this category. In the last two categories, Amsterdam earned grades of C and D for our short-term care and nursing categories respectively. Despite an otherwise respectable profile, a nursing score this poor may be an ominous sign for levels of nurse staffing.