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Two or three providers side by side, across the public record: licensing, ratings, inspections, penalties, staffing, ownership, and what care costs locally. Where no agency publishes a figure for a kind of provider, the cell says so rather than sitting empty next to a number and reading like a low score.
Example comparison
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center vs. Ashford Gardens
Two nursing homes in the same city, both certified by CMS, so every row below is a real like-for-like comparison. Start from any provider page or city listing to build your own. Compare a nursing home against an assisted living community and several rows will change to say they cannot be compared, because the two answer to different regulators and only one of them files the figure.
Care types
What each provider is licensed or certified to deliver. Different care types answer to different regulators, which is why the rows below are not always comparable.
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Nursing Homes
Ashford Gardens
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
169 beds or units
Ashford Gardens
202 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no license status for either of these providers, and cannot yet say whether that means there is nothing to report or a file we have not read. Nothing here should be read as a difference between them.
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Not establishedTexas's roster carries no status word for this license in the file we read. That is a gap in the file, not a lapsed license.
Ashford Gardens
Not establishedTexas's roster carries no status word for this license in the file we read. That is a gap in the file, not a lapsed license.
Published rating
Whatever the publishing regulator published, on the scale the regulator used. Nothing here is rescaled to five stars.
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
1.0Published for 2026-07-01
Ashford Gardens
2.0Published for 2026-07-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
37 citations
Most recent Jan 14, 2026
Ashford Gardens
30 citations
Most recent May 27, 2026
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
4 actions
$115,512 in fines on record
Ashford Gardens
1 action
$11,009 in fines on record
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
3.59 hrs/resident/day
0.32 hours above the Texas median of 3.27 hours.
Ashford Gardens
3.25 hrs/resident/day
0.02 hours below the Texas median of 3.27 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
For profit · Creative Solutions in Healthcare
149 facilities in this CMS chain
Ashford Gardens
For profit - Corporation · Cantex Continuing Care
37 facilities in this CMS chain
Typical local cost
The published monthly median for this care type in this provider's city. A market figure, never a price quoted by this provider.
Afton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
$5,326/mo
Typical for this care type in Houston, TX, not a price from this provider
Ashford Gardens
$5,326/mo
Typical for this care type in Houston, TX, not a price from this provider
Reading the blanks
A blank cell on this page is never just missing. It is one of three claims, and they mean very different things.
- None on record.
- We hold the whole published file for this measure and this provider is not in it. A real zero, and a finding in its own right.
- Not comparable.
- No agency publishes this measure for this kind of provider, so no provider of its kind has one. Shown hatched, because it is not a score at all.
- Not established.
- We cannot yet say whether the silence means a clean record or a file we have not read. We would rather tell you that than guess.
Read the full rules in our methodology and the underlying files in data sources.
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