Nursing Homes in Altoona, Pennsylvania

With just three nursing homes in the city, you only have a couple of choices in Altoona, Pennsylvania. These facilities earned on average an overall grade of F. This reflects the fact that this city has some really poor facilities. We looked at the individual nursing homes in the city and we didn't see any great options as not a single nursing home here received an above average grade. We really don't have many positive things to say about this city's nursing homes, but they did receive surprisingly strong inspection reports. You can scroll down to find out about this.

While its overall rating was awful, the nursing homes in Altoona performed favorably in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our higher scores. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many deficiencies. Surprisingly, we also awarded Altoona a grade of C for our nursing category. In our final two categories, Altoona earned terrible grades for our short-term care and long-term care categories.