Nursing Homes in Escondido, California

With 171,802 people, Escondido, California is relatively large city. There are 7 nursing homes there, which gives you plenty of options. Impressively, this place's nursing homes received a top-notch city grade of A-. A city grade in this range is very rare for a city with so many facilities. For comparison's sake, we also assessed the facilities in the nearby city of Poway, which received an impressive city grade in its own right. Nevertheless, we found the nursing homes in Escondido to be rated even higher than the ones in Poway. The best aspect of Escondido's impressive report card was its nursing homes' inspection ratings. We discuss inspections in the next section

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, many of the nursing homes in Escondido performed especially well in our inspections category. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received nearly flawless inspection reports this year. As a result, Escondido received one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. In addition, Escondido also really excelled in the area of short-term care, where we gave it an A-. Wrapping up its phenomenal profile, we gave Escondido grades of A- and B+ for our nursing and long-term care categories respectively.