Oakland, California offers far more nursing homes to choose from than the overwhelming majority of cities in California. We gave the nursing homes in this city a strong city grade of B+, which is quite an achievement when you look at the number of facilities in the city. For comparison's sake, we also looked at the nursing homes in the nearby city of Daly City, which received a decent city grade in its own right. Nevertheless, we found the nursing homes in Oakland to be in a totally different league than the ones in Daly City. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to having quality nursing homes overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Not many cities earned a better grade in this area. Our inspection grades are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Oakland received a grade of B+ in the area of nursing. Rounding out its quality report card, this place received strong grades in our long-term care and short-term care areas as well.