Nursing Homes in San Diego, California

With a population of 1,241,364 residents, San Diego, California is among the most densely populated cities in the nation. There are 22 nursing homes in the city, which should give you a variety of options. Impressively, this city's nursing homes received a very good city grade of B+. This is an accomplishment for any city, but it is especially impressive when you consider the number of facilities here. This is a better score than most of the cities in the nation. This city's nursing homes are stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the major areas discussed below. Additional information about its category grades is available in the next section.

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, most of the facilities in San Diego performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. The city also excelled in the area of short-term care with a B+. Wrapping up its report card, the city earned strong grades for our nursing and long-term care categories as well.