With just two nursing homes in the city, there are only a few options in Darlington, South Carolina. We awarded the nursing homes here a strong city grade of B+. Even with just a couple of facilities, this is still a great sign. We found this city grade to be considerably better than the city grade of C received by the nearby city of Sumter. While that is not a terrible grade, Darlington appears to be in a totally different league. We were pleased to find one really elite nursing home in the city. You probably can't go wrong starting your search with this place.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, most of the nursing homes in Darlington performed remarkably well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded its facilities a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. In addition, we also wanted to point out that we gave the city an A for our long-term care category. In the other categories we looked at, we gave Darlington a B- in our nursing category and a C in short-term care.