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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.
Amerita vs. Acara
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.
Amerita
Home Health Care
Acara
Home Health 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.
Amerita
Not establishedThe roster we read for this provider does not carry a licensed capacity. Not every state publishes one.
Acara
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 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.
Amerita
LICENSED FACILITY
Issued by Texas · License 018044
Acara
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.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold published rating 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.
Amerita
Not establishedNo quality rating has been published for this provider yet.
Acara
None on recordCMS has not published a star rating for this agency. It rates only agencies that report enough patient episodes.
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold inspection citations 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.
Amerita
Not establishedWe don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.
Acara
None on recordCMS lists no survey citations for this home health agency since 2018.
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.
Amerita
Not comparableCMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no home health agency appears in it.
Acara
Not comparableCMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no home health agency 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.
Amerita
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for home health agencies.
Acara
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for home health agencies.
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.
Amerita
Not establishedOwnership details are not on file yet.
Acara
PROPRIETARY
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.
Amerita
$5,996/mo
Typical for this care type in San Antonio, TX, not a price from this provider
Acara
$5,996/mo
Typical for this care type in San Antonio, TX, 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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