With 236,660 people, San Bernardino, California is a fairly large city. There are 11 nursing homes there, which provides you with a variety of choices. We gave the nursing homes in this city a city grade of B-, which is a solid score. This is just about average by national standards, which is perfectly respectable. This city is better in some categories than others, but it did not have terrible grades in any of our major categories. More information about these categories can be found in the next section.
We wanted to note that this city's inspection rating was superior to its overall grade. In fact, we gave San Bernardino a grade of B+ for its inspection score, which is one of our higher scores. Inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. San Bernardino's second best category was long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B- in this category. In the last two categories, San Bernardino received a B- for its nursing rating and a C in the area of short-term care.