There are six facilities in Charleston, South Carolina, which provides you with some choices. Impressively, this city's nursing homes received a strong city grade of B+. A city grade of this caliber is not very common in a city with so many facilities. In fact, Charleston is one of the top fifteen rated cities in South Carolina. Fortunately, this place's nursing homes didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available in the next section.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the nursing homes in Charleston performed remarkably well in terms of its inspection grade. In fact, some of its facilities received almost perfect inspection reports this year. As a result, we awarded it one of our best ratings in that category with an A-. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. The city also fared well in the category of short-term care with a grade of B+. Wrapping up its report card, we gave Charleston strong scores for our long-term care and nursing areas as well.