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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.

Alta Care Home vs. Genesis RCFE

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.

Alta Care Home

Assisted Living

Genesis RCFE

Assisted Living

Licensed capacity

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

Alta Care Home

6 beds or units

Genesis RCFE

6 beds or units

License status

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

Alta Care Home

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 496804055

Genesis RCFE

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 496804020

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. No public system publishes published rating for either of these providers, so there is nothing to compare here for either one.

Alta Care Home

Not comparable

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

Genesis RCFE

Not comparable

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

Inspection citations

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

Alta Care Home

1 citation

Most recent Jul 18, 2023

Genesis RCFE

3 citations

Most recent Jul 9, 2026

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.

Alta Care Home

Not comparable

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

Genesis RCFE

Not comparable

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

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.

Alta Care Home

Not comparable

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

Genesis RCFE

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. We hold no ownership and chain 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.

Alta Care Home

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

Genesis RCFE

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

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.

Alta Care Home

$7,415/mo

Typical for this care type in Petaluma, CA, not a price from this provider

Genesis RCFE

$7,415/mo

Typical for this care type in Petaluma, CA, not a price from this provider

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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