With 20,000 people, Rocky Mount, Virginia is a relatively small city. There are just 2 nursing homes in the city, which does not give you too many options. This city's limited supply of nursing homes were awarded a strong city grade of B. This is an average city grade nationally, which is nothing to be ashamed of. This place's nursing homes were better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found in the next section.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded the city an A+ for this category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Rocky Mount also received strong long-term care rating where it earned a B in this category. In our final two categories, this place received middle of the pack grades for our short-term care and nursing areas.