With two nursing homes in the city, you only have a couple of options in Lancaster, New York. Despite only having a couple of nursing homes, this city's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of B+. We found this city grade to be considerably better than the city grade of B- received by the nearby city of Rochester. Both cities received decent grades, but Lancaster appears to be a far better option. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
On top of having excellent nursing homes on the whole, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where we gave it an A+. Very few cities earned a better grade in this area. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. In addition, we also awarded this city an A- for our short-term care category. In the other categories we looked at, we awarded the city a B for long-term care and a B- for nursing.