With a population of 87,558 people, Morgantown, West Virginia is an average size city. Surprisingly, there are only 4 nursing homes there, which is fewer than we expected in a city of this size. This city received a city grade of C based on its overall nursing home quality. This is not a strong city score. This score is below average by national standards. One of the better aspects of this city's report card is its nursing homes' strong inspection ratings, which we will address in the following paragraph.
This city's nursing homes' most impressive category grade was in the area of health inspections. In that category, we gave the city a grade of B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. Morgantown also received one of our better scores in the area of long-term care, with a B. In the last two categories, we gave the city rock bottom grades for our short-term care and nursing areas respectively.