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. This relatively small group of facilities received on average an overall grade of B-, which is not a bad rating for the city. This place's city grade narrowly surpassed the city grade of nursing homes in the local city of Lexington, which received a terrible city grade. If choosing between these cities, Elkin looks like a better bet. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes performed in our category grades.
Despite receiving a fairly ordinary overall grade, the nursing homes in Elkin performed extremely well in our inspections category. In fact, some of its facilities received almost flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded Elkin one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This city received its next best grade in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-, which is also respectable. In the other categories we looked at, we gave the city grades of C and D for our long-term care and nursing categories respectively. Although we found its other categories to be decent, this low nursing score is not a great sign for levels of nursing staffing.