Fonteum Care Compare · California · San Diego
Nursing homes in San Diego, California: 21 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in San Diego — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset.
Average CMS overall rating in San Diego: 3.8 / 5
How San Diego compares
San Diego vs the California state average
Overall rating (of 5) — this city
3.8
State avg 3.2 / 5
+0.6 vs state
Staffing rating (of 5) — this city
2.9
State avg 3.1 / 5
-0.2 vs state
Facilities — this city
21
1,162 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 21 rated facilities above.
Where San Diego sits
All 21 Medicare-certified nursing homes in San Diego sit in San Diego County, California. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in San Diego, California
Kearny Mesa Convalescent And Nursing Home
7675 Family Circle Drive · CCN 055286 · For profit - Limited Liability company
98 certified beds · 84.3 avg daily residents · 4.46 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey May 8, 2025
5
Overall
3
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
University Care Center
5602 University Ave · CCN 055328 · For profit - Corporation
87 certified beds · 80.4 avg daily residents · 4.00 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey May 7, 2025
5
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Arroyo Vista Nursing Center
3022 45th Street · CCN 055505 · For profit - Corporation
53 certified beds · 47.6 avg daily residents · 4.29 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey October 10, 2024
5
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Jacob Healthcare Center
4075 54th St. · CCN 055508 · For profit - Limited Liability company
128 certified beds · 118 avg daily residents · 4.64 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey September 12, 2024
5
Overall
2
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Helen Bernardy Center D/p Snf
8060 Frost St · CCN 05A292 · Non profit - Corporation
43 certified beds · 28.9 avg daily residents · 9.14 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM Not rated · Last standard survey November 22, 2024
5
Overall
4
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
The Springs At Pacific Regent
3884 Nobel Drive · CCN 555739 · For profit - Limited Liability company
59 certified beds · 56.1 avg daily residents · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 6, 2025
5
Overall
1
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Bayshire Torrey Pines Post-Acute
13101 Hartfield Ave · CCN 555746 · For profit - Limited Liability company
45 certified beds · 37.7 avg daily residents · 4.93 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey December 12, 2024
5
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Vi At La Jolla Village
4171 Las Palmas Square · CCN 555793 · For profit - Limited Liability company
60 certified beds · 54.2 avg daily residents · 5.33 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 28, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Ridgeview Skilled Nursing Facility
9825 Glen Center Drive · CCN 555928 · For profit - Individual
45 certified beds · 31.9 avg daily residents · 5.14 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey June 12, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Balboa Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
3520 Fourth Avenue · CCN 056105 · For profit - Limited Liability company
194 certified beds · 182.3 avg daily residents · 4.17 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey May 15, 2025
4
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Golden Hill Post Acute
1201 34th St. · CCN 056182 · For profit - Corporation
99 certified beds · 85.3 avg daily residents · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 28, 2025
4
Overall
1
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Reo Vista Healthcare Center
6061 Banbury St. · CCN 056330 · For profit - Corporation
162 certified beds · 150.1 avg daily residents · 4.15 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 17, 2025
4
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Mission Hills Post Acute Care
3680 Reynard Way · CCN 056401 · For profit - Corporation
75 certified beds · 71.4 avg daily residents · 4.20 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey June 19, 2025
4
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Villa Rancho Bernardo Care Center
15720 Bernardo Center Drive · CCN 555318 · For profit - Limited Liability company
299 certified beds · 288.1 avg daily residents · 4.03 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey November 7, 2024
4
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Carmel Mountain Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center
11895 Avenue Of Industry · CCN 555326 · For profit - Limited Liability company
120 certified beds · 114.7 avg daily residents · 5.15 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 24, 2025
3
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
The Shores Post-Acute
2828 Meadowlark Drive · CCN 555585 · For profit - Corporation
305 certified beds · 297.6 avg daily residents · 3.53 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey December 5, 2024
3
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Hillcrest Heights Healthcare Center
4033 Sixth Avenue Ext · CCN 555630 · For profit - Limited Liability company
96 certified beds · 90.3 avg daily residents · 4.09 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey January 9, 2025
3
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
St. Pauls Health Care Center
235 Nutmeg Street · CCN 555144 · Non profit - Corporation
59 certified beds · 53.4 avg daily residents · 4.56 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey June 26, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
The Pavilion At Ocean Point
3202 Duke Street · CCN 055322 · For profit - Limited Liability company
133 certified beds · 123.3 avg daily residents · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey October 24, 2024
1
Overall
1
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Brighton Place San Diego
1350 N. Euclid Avenue · CCN 055795 · For profit - Limited Liability company
99 certified beds · 97.2 avg daily residents · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey January 15, 2025
1
Overall
1
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Casa De Las Campanas
18655 W. Bernardo Drive · CCN 555362 · Non profit - Other
99 certified beds · 56.1 avg daily residents · 4.47 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey August 8, 2025
1
Overall
4
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other California cities with nursing homes
Compare San Diego with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.