Nursing Homes in Bakersfield, California

There are 11 nursing homes in Bakersfield, California, which provides you with quite a few choices. We gave the nursing homes in this city a city grade of C, which isn't as high of a grade as we had hoped for. This grade unfortunately ended up on the wrong side of the national average. The best part of this city's report card is is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the following paragraph.

This city's nursing homes' overall grade was propped up by its inspections in recent years. We awarded the city one of our better scores in that category, with a B. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. The second best score we gave this city in any category was its nursing score, where it received a B-. Lastly, Bakersfield were awarded a B- in our short-term care category and a grade of C in long-term care.