Pittston, Pennsylvania is a medium size city with 36,875 people. It has only 2 nursing homes, which does not give you too many options. The small number of nursing homes in this city received a city grade of C, which is not a strong score at the city level. This grade is below average by national standards. Please continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes performed in our category grades.
Despite receiving a fairly ordinary overall grade, the nursing homes in Pittston performed extremely well in our inspections category. In fact, some of its facilities received almost perfect inspection reports this year. Consequently, Pittston received one of our highest ratings in that area with an A-. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This city's second highest score was in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Lastly, this place received grades of C and D for our nursing and long-term care categories respectively. Despite an otherwise respectable performance, this city's poor long-term care score may be a problem for many people.