With two nursing homes in the city, there are only a few choices in Lemon Grove, California. This place's nursing homes were given a respectable city grade of B-. For comparison's sake, we also looked at the nursing homes in the nearby city of Lakeside. While we not raving about either city, we found the facilities in Lemon Grove to be slightly better. One of the highlights of this city's report card is its nursing homes' impressive inspection scores, which you can find in the next section.
This city's most impressive category grade came in the area of government inspections. In this area, we gave the city a grade of B+. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. In addition, the city received a B in the area of short-term care. In the last two categories, the city earned middle of the road grades in our nursing and long-term care areas.