Brattleboro, Vermont is a medium size city with 16,820 people. The city features only 2 nursing homes, which doesn't give you too many choices. While it only has a couple of nursing homes, this city received a top-notch city grade of A. We found this city grade was considerably better than the city grade of B- received by the nearby city of Fitchburg. Both cities have some quality nursing homes, but Brattleboro appears to be in a totally different league. In addition, Brattleboro is also one of the 250 best cities in the entire nation.
On top of having quality nursing homes overall, this city's nursing homes really excelled in the area of inspections, where we gave it an A+. Not many cities fared this well in this area. Inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Brattleboro performed remarkably well in our long-term care category as well. Consequently, the city received an A in that area. Wrapping up its first-rate report card, this place received grades of A- and B+ for our nursing and short-term care categories respectively.