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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.

Affinity - Meadowbrook vs. Beacon Home at Highland

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.

Affinity - Meadowbrook

Assisted Living

Beacon Home at Highland

Assisted Living, Memory Care

Licensed capacity

Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.

Affinity - Meadowbrook

6 beds or units

Beacon Home at Highland

6 beds or units

License status

The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.

Affinity - Meadowbrook

REGULAR

Issued by Michigan · License AS800382668

Beacon Home at Highland

REGULAR

Issued by Michigan · License AS800242668

Published rating

Whatever the publishing regulator published, on the scale the regulator used. Nothing here is rescaled to five stars.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no published rating 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.

Affinity - Meadowbrook

Not comparable

Michigan does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.

Beacon Home at Highland

Not established

No quality rating has been published for this provider yet.

Inspection citations

How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no inspection citations 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.

Affinity - Meadowbrook

Not established

We don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.

Beacon Home at Highland

Not established

We don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.

Fines and payment denials

Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no fines and payment denials 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.

Affinity - Meadowbrook

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and Michigan publishes no assisted living penalty list.

Beacon Home at Highland

Not established

No fines or enforcement actions from the state licensing agency are on file for this provider yet.

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.

Affinity - Meadowbrook

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.

Beacon Home at Highland

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.

Ownership and chain

Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.

Not a like-for-like comparison. Both providers have ownership and chain on record, but the record for at least one of them may be incomplete. Read the smaller number as "at least this many", not a total.

Affinity - Meadowbrook

Individual or partnership licensee (Michigan LARA) · Affinity Health Management LLC

Beacon Home at Highland

Individual or partnership licensee (Michigan LARA) · Beacon Specialized Living Services, INC.

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.

Affinity - Meadowbrook

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Lawrence, MI yet.

Beacon Home at Highland

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Lawrence, MI 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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