With 65,097 people, New Bern, North Carolina is a relatively small city. There are only 4 nursing homes there, which doesn't provide you with too many choices. We gave this city a city grade of C based on its overall nursing home quality. This is not a great city grade. This grade unfortunately is on the wrong side of the national average. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
This city's overall grade was propped up by its health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in this category, with a B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This city's second best category is short-term care, where we awarded it a B- in this category. Lastly, we gave New Bern middle of the pack grades for our nursing and long-term care areas.