Utica, New York is a relatively small city with 71,803 people. It features 6 nursing homes, which is a decent selection for a city of this size. These nursing homes earned on average an overall grade of C. This isn't a bad grade, but it is not quite as strong of a grade as we like to see either. Nationally, most cities received a higher score than this city. Please continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes performed in our category grades.
While its overall score was not elite, this city's nursing homes performed remarkably well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded the city an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Utica's next best category is long-term care, where it earned a grade of B- in this category. In the last two categories, Utica received terrible grades for our short-term care and nursing areas respectively.