Nursing Homes in Amsterdam, New York

With just three nursing homes in the city, you only have a couple of choices in Amsterdam, New York. Despite only having a couple of nursing homes, this city's nursing homes received a very good city grade of B+. For comparison's sake, we also assessed the nursing homes in the nearby city of Albany, which received a city grade of B-. While there's nothing wrong with this grade, we found the facilities Amsterdam to be better on the whole. The best aspect of Amsterdam's impressive report card is its nursing homes' inspection scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, most of the nursing homes in Amsterdam performed spectacularly well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded Amsterdam an A+ for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very 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, Amsterdam earned a grade of B+ in the area of long-term care. Lastly, we gave the city slightly below average grades for our nursing and short-term care categories.