There are surprisingly only 3 nursing homes in Poughkeepsie, New York, servicing a decent size population of 86,794 people. We awarded the nursing homes in this city a very good city grade of B+. Even with just a couple of facilities, this is still an impressive city grade. This is a well above average grade with the vast majority of places receiving a B or lower. Fortunately, this city didn't have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about its category grades is available in the next section.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, most of the nursing homes in Poughkeepsie performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. In addition, the city also performed spectacularly well in the area of long-term care, where we gave it an A- for this category. Finally, we awarded the city slightly below average grades for our short-term care and nursing areas.