With a population of 17,121 people, Galion, Ohio is a small city. There are only 3 nursing homes there, which does not give you too many options to choose from. The small number of nursing homes here received a city grade of C, which is not a great grade at the city level. Nationally, most cities received a higher grade than this city. The best part of this city's report card is its nursing homes' exemplary inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the following paragraph.
Despite receiving a somewhat average overall grade, the nursing homes in Galion performed extremely well in our inspections category. In fact, some of its facilities received nearly flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded Galion one of our highest ratings in that area with a grade of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Galion's second best category is long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B- in this area. In our final two categories, Galion earned grades of C and D for our short-term care and nursing categories respectively. Despite an otherwise respectable profile, a nursing score of this caliber may be an ominous sign for levels of nurse staffing.