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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.

Ashley River Healthcare vs. NHC Healthcare - Charleston

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.

Ashley River Healthcare

Nursing Homes

NHC Healthcare - Charleston

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Ashley River Healthcare

125 beds or units

NHC Healthcare - Charleston

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 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.

Ashley River Healthcare

Not established

South Carolina'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.

NHC Healthcare - Charleston

Not established

South Carolina'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.

Ashley River Healthcare

5.0

Published for 2026-07-01

NHC Healthcare - Charleston

2.0

Published for 2026-06-01

Inspection citations

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

Ashley River Healthcare

11 citations

Most recent Mar 18, 2026

NHC Healthcare - Charleston

9 citations

Most recent Apr 3, 2026

Fines and payment denials

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

Ashley River Healthcare

2 actions

$46,164 in fines on record

NHC Healthcare - Charleston

2 actions

Nurse staffing hours

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

Ashley River Healthcare

3.59 hrs/resident/day

0.02 hours above the South Carolina median of 3.57 hours.

NHC Healthcare - Charleston

5.09 hrs/resident/day

1.52 hours above the South Carolina median of 3.57 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Ashley River Healthcare

For profit · The Ensign Group INC

342 facilities in this CMS chain

NHC Healthcare - Charleston

For profit · National Healthcare Corporation

69 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.

Ashley River Healthcare

$10,072/mo

Typical for this care type in Charleston, SC, not a price from this provider

NHC Healthcare - Charleston

$10,072/mo

Typical for this care type in Charleston, SC, 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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