Spring Valley, California offers just three nursing homes to choose from, which is a limited selection. These nursing homes here earned this city a good city grade of B. We also assessed the nursing homes in the nearby city of El Cajon, which received a city grade of B-. While there's nothing wrong with this grade, we found the facilities Spring Valley to be better on the whole. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, most of the facilities in Spring Valley performed spectacularly well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded it an A- for this category, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. In addition, Spring Valley earned a B+ in the area of nursing. Lastly, the city received middle of the road grades for our short-term care and long-term care categories.