Richmond, Virginia is a large city with 364,141 people. It has 10 nursing homes, so you should have plenty of options to choose from. These facilities were awarded on average an overall grade of D. This is a sign that this city has some really poor nursing homes. We also looked at the nursing homes in the nearby city of Hopewell. While we aren't high on either city, we found the facilities in Richmond to be slightly better. If you aren't deterred by this city's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its nursing homes' category grades. This city's nursing homes actually fared decently in inspections for instance.
While its overall rating was awful, we actually awarded the facilities in Richmond a decent grade of B- for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. We also wanted to acknowledge that we gave Richmond a grade of C in the area of short-term care. Lastly, Richmond earned middle of the road grades in our nursing and long-term care areas.