There are just 3 nursing homes located in East Providence, Rhode Island, servicing a population of 21,963 people. This city's nursing homes received a very good city grade of B+, so what this city lacks in quantity, it makes up for by having high quality nursing homes. East Providence has the distinction of being the third best city in the state of Rhode Island according to our ratings. The best aspect of this city's impressive profile was its nursing homes' inspection ratings. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
As mentioned above, this city's nursing homes received a strong overall grade, but we also wanted to point out that some of the city's facilities received almost perfect health inspections the past few years. We gave East Providence an impressive grade of A for this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. In addition, East Providence also performed spectacularly well in our short-term care category, where it earned a grade of A- for that category. Wrapping up its impressive profile, we awarded the city strong grades for our nursing and long-term care areas as well.