Norfolk, Virginia is a large metropolitan area with 242,803 people. It has 6 nursing homes, which is an impressive selection. This city received a city grade of C for an overall score. This is not a strong city grade. This grade is not necessarily the end of the world, but it is definitely below average by national standards. Surprisingly, this city had 2 nursing homes that received a grade of A- or better. This provides a few top-shelf facilities.
While this city's nursing homes received a middle of the road overall grade, its inspection grade is higher than the city's overall score. Due to some of its nursing homes receiving strong inspection reports this year, we gave Norfolk one of our better grades in this category with a grade of B. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This city earned its next highest score in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-, which also isn't too bad. In our final two categories, this place earned grades of B- and D for our long-term care and nursing areas respectively. While we found most of its grades to be decent, this low nursing grade is not a very good sign for nursing staffing levels.