With a population of 90,669 people, Franklin, Tennessee is a moderately populated city. Surprisingly, there are only 4 nursing homes there, which is not quite as many as we expected in a city of this size. These nursing homes here earned this city a strong city grade of B. For comparison's sake, we also looked at the nursing homes in the nearby city of Smyrna. We found the nursing homes in Franklin to be in a totally different league than the ones in Smyrna. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
To go along with its favorable overall grade, this city's nursing homes also earned a B+ for our inspections category. Inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. In addition, Franklin also received an impressive short-term care rating where it received a B+ in this area. In the other categories we looked at, Franklin earned a B for its nursing rating and a grade of B- in the area of long-term care.