Pittsburg, California is a medium size city with 84,641 people. It has only 2 nursing homes, which is not quite as many as we expected in a city of this size. This relatively small group of nursing homes received on average an overall grade of B-, which is a solid score for the city. This is just about average by national standards, which is nothing to be ashamed of. This place was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have terrible scores in any of our major categories. More information about these categories can be found in the next paragraph.
Despite receiving a fairly ordinary overall grade, the nursing homes in Pittsburg performed spectacularly well in the area of inspections. In fact, some of the nursing homes in the city received nearly perfect inspection reports this year. As a result, Pittsburg received one of our highest ratings in that category with a grade of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. In addition, the city also received one of our better scores in the area of long-term care, with a B. In the last two categories, we gave Pittsburg a grade of B- for its nursing score and a C in short-term care.