Summerville, South Carolina is an average size city with 111,788 people. It has just 2 nursing homes, which is not quite as many as we expected in a city of this size. We gave this city a city grade of B for based on the quality of its nursing homes. This is as good or better than the city grade of most of the cities in the nation. Perhaps most importantly, this city has 2 nursing homes that were awarded a grade of A- or better. This provides a couple of first-class facilities.
On top of performing well overall, we gave Summerville one of our better grades in our short-term care rating where it earned a B+. With a short-term care grade this high we'd expect many of the facilities this city to offer high levels of physical and occupational therapy staffing. In addition, Summerville earned a grade of B+ in the area of long-term care. Wrapping up its impressive profile, this place earned a grade of B+ for its inspections grade and a grade of B+ for nursing. We found Summerville to be very competent in each category we assessed.