Nursing Homes in Charleston, South Carolina

With six nursing homes to choose from in Charleston, South Carolina, you can afford to look at multiple options before making a decision. Impressively, this place's nursing homes received a superb city grade of A-. This would be an achievement for any city, but it is even more impressive when you consider the number of facilities in the city. For comparison's sake, we also assessed the facilities in the nearby city of North Charleston, which received a city grade of B. As good as the nursing homes are in North Charleston, we found Charleston to be even better. The best aspect of Charleston's impressive report card is its nursing homes' inspection grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, many of the nursing homes in Charleston performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded Charleston a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Charleston also really excelled in the area of short-term care, where we gave it an A-. Rounding out its excellent profile, this place earned an A- for its long-term care score and a B+ in nursing.