There are nine nursing homes in Winston Salem, North Carolina, which gives you some options to choose from. This city's nursing homes were awarded a city grade of B-. By way of comparison, we awarded the nursing homes in the local city of Lexington a city grade of D, which is a very poor grade. Clearly, we found the facilities in Winston Salem to be rated much higher than the ones in Lexington. Please continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes performed in our category grades.
Despite receiving a fairly ordinary overall grade, this city's nursing homes performed extremely well in the area of inspections. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received nearly flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, Winston Salem received one of our best ratings in that category with an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. Winston Salem's next best category was long-term care, where we gave it a B- in this area. In the last two categories, we gave the city a grade of B- for its short-term care rating and a C for nursing.