With 14,979 people, Sweetwater, Tennessee is a relatively small city. There are only 2 nursing homes in the city, which doesn't offer you too many options. This relatively small group of nursing homes earned on average an overall grade of B, which is a good grade for the city. This is as good or better than the city grade of most of the cities in the country. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, the nursing homes in Sweetwater performed spectacularly well in the category of inspections. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received virtually flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, it received one of our best ratings in that area with a grade of A. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. The city also received one of our better grades in the area of long-term care, with a grade of B. In our final two categories, we gave Sweetwater slightly below average grades for our nursing and short-term care areas.