Winchester, Virginia is an average size city with 70,166 people. The city has just 4 nursing homes, which doesn't offer you too many options. We gave this city a city grade of B for overall nursing home quality. This is as good or better than the city grade of the average city in the country. 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 categories discussed below. More information about its category grades is available in the next paragraph.
One of the reasons this city performed well overall is that many of its facilities excelled in the category of inspections with a B+. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. In addition, Winchester earned a grade of B+ for the city's short-term care rating. Wrapping up its profile, this place were awarded a B for long-term care and a grade of B in the area of nursing. This place did not have any weak links as far as we could tell.