Scotland Neck, North Carolina is an average size city with 4,861 people. It features only 2 nursing homes, which doesn't provide you with too many choices. We gave the nursing homes here a very good city grade of B+. Even with just a few facilities, this is still a high quality city grade. We found this city grade was considerably better than the city grade of C received by the nearby city of Suffolk. Although that isn't a terrible grade, Scotland Neck appears to be a far better option. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the facilities in Scotland Neck performed especially well in terms of its inspection grade. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received almost flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded it one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Scotland Neck also received strong long-term care score with a B+ in this category. In the other categories we looked at, we awarded the city a B for its nursing grade and a B- for short-term care.