With a population of 161,141 residents, Sioux Falls, South Dakota is one of is relatively large city. Surprisingly, there are only 5 nursing homes there, which is not as many as we expected in a city of this size. We gave the nursing homes in this city a first-rate city grade of A-. Even with a relatively limited number of nursing homes, this is still a great achievement. Sioux Falls is ranked as one of the top 500 cities in the country. This is impressive given that we ranked thousands of cities around the nation. Not surprisingly, this city has 4 nursing homes that received a grade of A- or better. This gives you a few top-shelf facilities.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the facilities in Sioux Falls performed remarkably well in terms of its inspection grade. In fact, some of its facilities received virtually perfect inspection reports this year. As a result, we awarded Sioux Falls one of our highest scores in that category with an A. Our inspection scores are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Sioux Falls also performed remarkably well in our long-term care category, with an A- for this area. Wrapping up its excellent report card, Sioux Falls received grades of A- and B+ for our nursing and short-term care areas respectively.