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Key information
Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital is a 96-bed nursing home in San Mateo. Medicare rates it 5 out of 5 stars overall, the highest rating, with 4 for health inspections, 5 for staffing and 3 for quality of care.
It is certified by Medicare and Medi-Cal, and has been since 1967. The nearest hospital, San Mateo Medical Center, which has an emergency room, is 0.9 miles away.
Inspectors have visited 22 times since November 2023, most recently on June 2, 2026. Federal inspectors cited 23 deficiencies in that time, none rated as having harmed a resident (20 potential for harm and 3 minor or administrative). Regulators looked into 35 complaints in that time (5 substantiated, 7 unsubstantiated and 23 without a recorded outcome).
From April to June 2026, each resident received 4.28 hours of nursing care a day on average, 0.91 of them from registered nurses.
Rating and inspection report
Official rating
- Medicare health inspections4/5 · Above average
- Medicare quality measures (long stay)5/5 · Much above average
- Medicare quality measures3/5 · Average
- Medicare quality measures (short stay)2/5 · Below average
- Medicare staffing5/5 · Much above average
- State inspectionsNo serious citations in 3 years
Care & pricing
Care available
- Licensed capacity
- 96 beds
- State license
- CA 220000171 · Active
Pricing
- Average daily charge (Medicare cost report): $404 per dayNursing home
Payment types accepted
Daily life
Details
Facilities
- Activity room
- Arts room
- Business room
- Cable TV
- Climate control
- Fitness room
- Furnished
- Game room
- Garden
- Kitchenette
- Library
- Movie room
- Outdoor common space
- Private bathroom
- Spa /
sauna / wellness room - Telephone in room
- Walking paths
- Wi-Fi and internet access
- Non-profit ownership
- State-licensed skilled nursing facility (California CDPH)
Activities
- Movie nights
- Music program
- Outdoor programs
- Resident run activities
- Scheduled daily activities
Services
- 12-16 hour nursing
- 24-hour call system
- 24-hour supervision
- Activities of daily living assistance
- Assistance with bathing
- Assistance with dressing
- Assistance with transfers
- Concierge
- Family support services
- Housekeeping
- Laundry
- Licensed nurse on site 24/
7 - Medication administration by staff
- Medication management and reminders
- Move in coordination
- Non-ambulatory care
- Resident council
- Special diets (diabetic, renal, pureed)
Dining
- All day dining
- Allergy sensitive
- Diabetes diet
- Dining room
- Gluten free
- Guest Meals
- Professional chef
- Restaurant style dining
Safety and security
- Automatic sprinklers throughout the building
- Emergency alert system
Transportation
- Transportation and parking
Policies
- Accepts Medicaid (Medi-Cal)
- Accepts Medicare
Languages spoken on site
- English
- English spoken
- Farsi spoken
- Spanish Spoken
- Tagalog spoken
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Reviews and listings
What families and listing sites say.
Ratings on other sites
- 5/5
- 3.5/5
Reviews
- CareScout5/5
I have been in this place for four times. It is the best place. All staff treated me like family. The food is excellent and is fresh and cooked at the facility in their own kitchen and served on real, not plastic, plates and silverware. The dining room has tables for four people and even has real tablecloths. This might seem unimportant but it’s just another place that makes it feel like home.
Read full reviewMar 24, 2026
- Caring.com2/5
If your loved one needs special care, this is the wrong place to come. My husband was on dialysis and was an amputee. If he pushed the call button, sometimes it took over a half hour to get care. Also not very clean in my opinion
Read full reviewFamily member
Apr 21, 2020
- Caring.com5/5
Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital was very welcoming. They didn't tell me I wasn't old enough and let me stay there for eight days. It's very nice, clean, and doesnt smell. It's very appropriate and nurses are friendly. The environment was good. They had computers, a library, and a piano. It looked like they had everything to keep your mind occupied.
Read full reviewVisitor
Jul 26, 2018
- Caring.com5/5
Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital was a great place. Everybody there was great, including the doctors. The care that they gave was nice. The rooms were shared, and they were clean. I don’t have anything negative to say about the place. The staff was friendly, caring, warm, knowledgeable, and attentive. It was a warm, friendly, and clean environment.
Read full reviewFamily member
May 31, 2017
- Caring.com3/5
My mother-in-law is in a nursing home. Everybody seems great at Brookside. I didn’t see the dining area, but I saw my mother-in-law’s dinner, and it looks great. Most of them are in beds, they have some gentlemen out in the hall in their wheelchairs, and they had some in the front room, but my husband mentioned that they do have some activities.
Read full reviewFamily member
Jan 13, 2015
- Caring.com2/5
this facility my be ok for persons that can tend for them but if you need help good luck. my mother is bed ridden and having Dialysis. the other day when she returned for dialysis no one came to feed her. finally the hsband of her room mate fed her but the food was cold.
Read full reviewFamily member
Jan 5, 2015
- Caring.com4/5
I have a whole bunch of roommates here in Brookside. But I'd rather have my own room . I've been here for about five months now. I have to get walking better before I can leave that's why I got here. It's not bad and people are nice. The services are good. But I have to get a walk every day. I was in the beginning but not anymore. We do have good activities here. Sometimes the food is okay, sometimes it's awful. It would be great if they could change the mattress every 10 years.
Read full reviewResident
Feb 28, 2013
Location
2620 Flores St, San Mateo, CA 94403