With a population of 10,472 , Elkin, North Carolina is a relatively small city. There are only 2 nursing homes in the city, which doesn't provide you with too many options to choose from. We gave the nursing homes in this city city grade of C, which isn't as strong of a score as we like. This city's city grade was a bit better than the city grade of nursing homes in the local city of Lexington, which received an abysmal city grade. If choosing between the two, Elkin looks like a better bet. Please continue reading to find more information about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
Despite receiving a fairly ordinary overall grade, the nursing homes in Elkin performed spectacularly well in our inspections category. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received almost perfect inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded Elkin one of our highest ratings in that category with an A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Inspections is Elkin's second best feature. The city earned a grade of B- in this category. In our final two categories, the city received grades of C and D for our long-term care and nursing categories respectively. While we found its other categories to be decent, this low nursing rating is not a good sign for nursing staffing levels.