Yakima, Washington is a medium size city with 126,248 people. It features 7 nursing homes, which is a decent selection for a city of this size. This place's nursing homes were awarded a city grade of C, which is not one of our better scores at the city level. This score is below average by national standards. The best part of this city's report card is is its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
This city's most impressive category grade came in the area of health inspections. In this category, we gave the city a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. Yakima also received one of our better scores in our short-term care category, with a grade of B. Finally, Yakima earned a grade of B- in our nursing category and a C in the area of long-term care.