There are two facilities in Hinton, West Virginia, which at least gives you a few choices. This place's nursing homes received a strong city grade of B+, so what this place lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. We were so impressed with this city that we ranked it as one of the top 500 cities in the entire nation. This is impressive considering we assessed thousands of cities around the nation. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its nursing homes' inspection reports, which is addressed in the next section.
On top of having excellent nursing homes on the whole, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Not many cities fared this well in this category. Inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We also awarded this city a grade of A in our long-term care category. In the last two categories, we awarded the city a B for its nursing score and a grade of C in the area of short-term care.