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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.
A Brightstart Services, INC vs. Cardinal Hospice
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.
A Brightstart Services, INC
Hospice Care
Cardinal Hospice
Hospice Care
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no licensed capacity 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.
A Brightstart Services, INC
Not establishedThe roster we read for this provider does not carry a licensed capacity. Not every state publishes one.
Cardinal Hospice
Not establishedThe roster we read for this provider does not carry a licensed capacity. Not every state publishes one.
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.
A Brightstart Services, INC
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.
Cardinal Hospice
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.
A Brightstart Services, INC
None on recordCMS has not published a Hospice Care Index score for this hospice. It scores only hospices that report enough measures.
Cardinal Hospice
None on recordCMS has not published a Hospice Care Index score for this hospice. It scores only hospices that report enough measures.
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
A Brightstart Services, INC
2 citations
Most recent May 13, 2022
Cardinal Hospice
None on recordCMS lists no survey citations for this hospice since October 2021.
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Not a like-for-like comparison. No public system publishes fines and payment denials for either of these providers, so there is nothing to compare here for either one.
A Brightstart Services, INC
Not comparableCMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no hospice appears in it.
Cardinal Hospice
Not comparableCMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no hospice appears in it.
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Not a like-for-like comparison. No public system publishes nurse staffing hours for either of these providers, so there is nothing to compare here for either one.
A Brightstart Services, INC
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for hospices.
Cardinal Hospice
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for hospices.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold ownership and chain for some of these providers and not for others, and we cannot yet say whether the gap means a clean record or a file we have not read. Treat the difference between these columns as unknown, not as a finding.
A Brightstart Services, INC
Not establishedOwnership details are not on file yet.
Cardinal Hospice
For-Profit
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.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no typical local cost 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.
A Brightstart Services, INC
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Mansfield, TX yet.
Cardinal Hospice
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Mansfield, TX yet.
What the blank cells mean
- None on record.
- The public record covers this provider and lists nothing.
- Not comparable.
- No agency publishes this measure for this kind of provider. Shown hatched.
- Not established.
- We don't have this record for this provider yet.
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