Nursing Homes in Durham, North Carolina

With 11 nursing homes to choose from in Durham, North Carolina, you should be able to find a good one. We awarded the nursing homes here a city grade of B-, which is a decent score. This city's city grade was a bit better than the city grade of nursing homes in the local city of Clayton. While the nursing homes in Clayton are not terrible, we found Durham to be a better option. Finally, this city's nursing homes received consistent grades in all of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

Despite receiving a fairly ordinary overall grade, this city performed spectacularly well in the area of inspections. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received nearly flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, Durham received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. Durham earned a grade of B for our short-term care category. In the other categories we looked at, we gave the city middle of the road grades for our long-term care and nursing areas.