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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 established

Texas'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 established

Texas'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

1.0

Published for 2026-07-01

Ashford Gardens

2.0

Published 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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