Summerville, South Carolina is a medium size city with 111,788 people. The city has just 3 nursing homes, which is not quite as many as we expected in a city of this size. We awarded the nursing homes here a strong city grade of B+. Even with just a couple of nursing homes, this is still a great sign. We were so impressed with this city that we ranked it as one of the top fifteen rated cities in South Carolina. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded its facilities a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Summerville also performed spectacularly well in the area of long-term care, with an A- for this category. In our final two categories, we gave the city a B+ for its short-term care rating and a grade of B- in nursing.