Hot Springs, South Dakota is an average size city with 5,870 people. The city features only 2 nursing homes, which does not provide you with too many options. Despite only having a couple of nursing homes, this city received a world class city grade of A. Hot Springs has the distinction of being one of the 250 best cities in the entire country. This is impressive given that we assessed thousands of cities around the country. One of the major highlights of this city's stellar profile is its nursing homes' inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city's nursing homes performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded Hot Springs a grade of A+ for this category, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Hot Springs also performed spectacularly well in our long-term care category, where we gave it an A- for that area. Wrapping up its top notch profile, the city were awarded an A- in our short-term care category and a grade of B+ for nursing.