There are 7 nursing homes in Santa Barbara, California, servicing a population of 132,916 people. Impressively, the nursing homes in this city received a first-rate city grade of A-. In fact, this is one of the twenty five highest rated cities in California. This is also a reminder that this state has plenty of cities with excellent nursing homes. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its nursing homes' inspection ratings, which you can find in the next paragraph.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this city's nursing homes performed extremely well in terms of its inspection grade. In fact, some of its facilities received nearly perfect inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded Santa Barbara one of our highest ratings in that area with an A. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. The city also really excelled in the area of short-term care, where we gave it an A. Wrapping up its excellent profile, this place were awarded an A- for nursing and a B+ in the area of long-term care.