With 69,485 people, Aiken, South Carolina is a relatively small city. There are only 3 nursing homes in the city, which doesn't give you too many options to choose from. These nursing homes didn't really excel from a quality perspective either. The city was given a city grade of C, which is not one of our stronger scores at the city level. Nationally, most cities received a higher grade than this place. Finally, this place's nursing homes received consistent grades in all four of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades is available in the next paragraph.
This city's best category was its long-term care rating, where it received a B-. In our long-term care rating, we weigh the quantity of care offered by a nursing home, as well as a handful of quality statistics. Aiken earned its next highest score in the category of inspections, where we gave it a grade of B-, which also isn't too bad. In our final two categories, Aiken received middle of the road grades for our short-term care and nursing areas.