With two nursing homes in the city, there are only a couple of options in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. We gave the nursing homes in this city an excellent city grade of A+. Even with just a couple of nursing homes, this is still quite an accomplishment. By way of comparison, we awarded the facilities in the nearby city of Winona a city grade of B+, which is also an impressive grade. Nevertheless, we found the facilities in Eau Claire to be in a totally different league than the ones in Winona. On top of this, this is the highest rated city in the state of Wisconsin.
On top of having excellent nursing homes overall, this city really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Not many cities performed better in this area. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. In addition, Eau Claire also performed extremely well in the area of long-term care, with an A+ for this area. Rounding out its straight A report card, Eau Claire received excellent grades in our nursing and short-term care categories as well.