With 27 nursing homes in the city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania offers more nursing homes than the vast majority of cities. We awarded the nursing homes here a city grade of B, which is a perfectly respectable score. By way of comparison, we awarded the nursing homes in the local city of Irwin a city grade of F, which is a very poor grade. Clearly, we found the nursing homes in Pittsburgh to be on a whole other level than the ones in Irwin. This city's report card is also very consistent as it did not receive a single poor category grade either. You can learn more about these in the next paragraph.
One of the reasons this city performed well overall is that many of its nursing homes excelled in the area of health inspections with a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. The city also earned one of our better scores in our nursing category, with a B. In our final two categories, Pittsburgh were awarded a B for short-term care and a grade of B- in long-term care.