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 C, which is not as strong of a grade as we like. This score is below average by national standards. This place was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have bad scores in any of our major categories. More information about its category grades can be found in the next paragraph.
We wanted to note that this city's inspection grade was superior to its overall grade. In fact, we awarded San Bernardino a B+ for its inspection rating, which is one of our higher scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This city's next best score was in the area of long-term care, where it received a B-. Finally, San Bernardino earned a C for nursing and a grade of C for short-term care.