With a population of 49,121 people, Encinitas, California is a small city. There are just 3 nursing homes in the city, which does not give you too many options to choose from. This city's nursing homes received a very good city grade of B+, so what this city lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. This is a better score than most of the cities in the country. This place's nursing homes are better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about its category grades is available in the next paragraph.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city performed extremely well in short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. With a short-term care grade of this caliber we'd expect many of the facilities in Encinitas to a high functioning physical therapy and rehabilitation program. In addition, the city performed extremely well in the area of inspections as well. In fact, some of its facilities received almost perfect inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded it an A- in that area. Wrapping up its quality profile, the city earned favorable grades for our nursing and long-term care areas as well.