Hacienda Heights, California is a small city with 54,013 people. It has only one nursing home, which is fewer than we were hoping for. Fortunately,, this place's lone nursing home received a top-notch grade of A-, so at least there is one quality option. For comparison's sake, we also assessed the facilities in the nearby city of Temple City. We found the nursing home in Hacienda Heights to be rated much higher than most of the nursing homes in Temple City. The best part of this facility's strong profile was its nursing rating. We discuss nursing in the following paragraph.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this city's nursing home performed extremely well in the area of nursing. Consequently, it earned one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A+. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This facility also performed spectacularly well in our short-term care category, where it earned an A. In the other categories we looked at, we gave Hacienda Heights middle of the pack grades for our inspections and long-term care categories respectively.