With 2,449 people, Garrison, North Dakota is a small city. There are only 2 nursing homes there, which doesn't offer you too many options. The nursing homes in this city received a strong city grade of B+. Even with only a couple of nursing homes, this is still a high quality city grade. In fact, this is the seventh best city in the state of North Dakota according to our rankings. The best part of Garrison's strong profile is its nursing homes' inspection scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this city performed extremely well in our inspections category. In fact, some of its facilities received almost perfect inspection reports this year. Consequently, Garrison received one of our best scores in that category with an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. In addition, Garrison also really excelled in the category of short-term care, where we gave it an A-. In our final two categories, the city received middle of the road grades for our nursing and long-term care areas.