With a population of 23,825 people, Sparta, Tennessee is a relatively small city. There are just 2 nursing homes there, which does not give you too many options. We awarded the nursing homes in this city an excellent city grade of A-. Even with only a few facilities, this is still quite an accomplishment. We were so impressed with this city that we rated it as one of the five highest rated cities in the state of Tennessee. Not surprisingly, this city has 2 facilities that were awarded a grade of A- or better. Few cities offer more than one nursing home of this quality.
On top of having excellent nursing homes on the whole, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Few cities fared this well in this category. Inspection grades are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. In addition, we also wanted to emphasize that we gave the city an A for our long-term care rating. Wrapping up its quality report card, we gave Sparta strong scores for our short-term care and nursing areas as well.