With 67,593 people, Harrisonburg, Virginia is a small city. There are only 3 nursing homes there, which does not offer you too many choices. This place's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of A-, so what this place lacks in quantity, it makes up for by having high quality nursing homes. In fact, this city's city grade far surpassed the city grade of nursing homes in the local city of Staunton. While this grade are not that bad, we found Harrisonburg to be on a whole other level. We were so impressed with this city that we rated it as one of the 500 best cities in the entire country.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, many of the facilities in Harrisonburg performed spectacularly well in terms of its inspection grade. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received virtually flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, the city received one of our best grades in that area with an A. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. In addition, we also wanted to point out that we awarded the city an A- in our short-term care rating. Rounding out its strong profile, this place were awarded a B+ for its nursing grade and a grade of B+ in the area of long-term care. This city did not have any weak links as far as we could tell.