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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.

Ahwatukee Post Acute vs. Acacia Health Center

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.

Ahwatukee Post Acute

Nursing Homes

Acacia Health Center

Assisted Living, Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Ahwatukee Post Acute

192 beds or units

Acacia Health Center

88 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 license status 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.

Ahwatukee Post Acute

Not established

Arizona'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.

Acacia Health Center

ACTIVE

Issued by Arizona · License AL8176C

Published rating

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

Ahwatukee Post Acute

3.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Acacia Health Center

5.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Inspection citations

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

Ahwatukee Post Acute

39 citations

Most recent Aug 8, 2025

Acacia Health Center

3 citations

Most recent Dec 24, 2025

Fines and payment denials

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

Ahwatukee Post Acute

None on record

CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this facility. That comes from the Care Compare penalty file, updated monthly, which names every certified nursing home CMS has penalized in the last three years.

Acacia Health Center

None on record

CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this facility. That comes from the Care Compare penalty file, updated monthly, which names every certified nursing home CMS has penalized in the last three years.

Nurse staffing hours

Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.

Ahwatukee Post Acute

2.92 hrs/resident/day

0.84 hours below the Arizona median of 3.76 hours.

Acacia Health Center

5.65 hrs/resident/day

1.89 hours above the Arizona median of 3.76 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Ahwatukee Post Acute

For profit · Pacs Group, INC.

274 facilities in this CMS chain

Acacia Health Center

For profit · Life Care Services LLC

43 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.

Ahwatukee Post Acute

$8,472/mo

Typical for this care type in Phoenix, AZ, not a price from this provider

Acacia Health Center

$6,330/mo

Typical for this care type in Phoenix, AZ, 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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