With 25,255 people, Oxford, North Carolina is a relatively small city. There are only 2 nursing homes there, which doesn't provide you with too many options. We gave the nursing homes in this city city grade of C, which is not as strong of a score as we had hoped for. This grade unfortunately is on the wrong side of the national average. The best part of this city's report card was its nursing homes' stellar inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the following paragraph.
While its overall score was not elite, the nursing homes in Oxford 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 calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This city's second best category was long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C in this category. In the last two categories, we gave Oxford rock bottom grades in our nursing and short-term care categories respectively.