There are five facilities in Bellingham, Washington, so at least you have a few options to choose from. With a city grade of B-, you ought to be able to find a respectable nursing home in the city. This is comparable with most of the places in the United States. This city was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have terrible scores in any of our major areas discussed below. Additional information about these categories is available in the next paragraph.
Despite receiving a somewhat average overall grade, this city's nursing homes performed spectacularly well in the area of nursing. As a result, Bellingham received one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A-. Cities with these kinds of nursing scores usually have plenty of nursing homes offering high levels of staffing. In addition, Bellingham also performed extremely well in our short-term care category, where we gave it an A- for this category. In the last two categories, Bellingham earned slightly below average grades for our inspections and long-term care categories respectively.