There is just one nursing home in Simpsonville, South Carolina, servicing a small population of 74,264 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a perfectly respectable score. This is as good or better than the city grade of the average city in the country. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next section
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city's sole nursing home performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. This place also performed remarkably well in our long-term care category, where we awarded it an A-. In our final two categories, this place received a B- for its nursing rating and a grade of B- in the area of short-term care.