With just two nursing homes in the city, there are only a few choices in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. This place's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of B+, so what this city lacks in quantity, it makes up for by having high quality nursing homes. For comparison's sake, we also assessed the nursing homes in the nearby city of Marysville, which received a city grade of C. We found Upper Sandusky to be in a totally different league. 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, this city performed extremely well in the category of inspections. In fact, some of its facilities received virtually flawless inspection reports this year. As a result, Upper Sandusky received one of our best ratings in that area with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. We also awarded Upper Sandusky a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. In the other categories we looked at, Upper Sandusky received middle of the road grades for our nursing and short-term care categories.