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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.

Atherton vs. Royal Gardens Healthcare

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.

Atherton

Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC), Nursing Homes

Royal Gardens Healthcare

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Atherton

518 beds or units

Royal Gardens Healthcare

43 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.

Atherton

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 197802543

Royal Gardens Healthcare

Not established

California'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.

Atherton

5.0

Published for 2026-07-01

Royal Gardens Healthcare

1.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Inspection citations

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

Atherton

28 citations

Most recent Jan 16, 2026

Royal Gardens Healthcare

72 citations

Most recent Apr 16, 2026

Fines and payment denials

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

Atherton

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.

Royal Gardens Healthcare

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.

Atherton

4.29 hrs/resident/day

0.05 hours above the California median of 4.24 hours.

Royal Gardens Healthcare

4.53 hrs/resident/day

0.29 hours above the California median of 4.24 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Atherton

Non profit - Corporation · Atherton Baptist Homes

Royal Gardens Healthcare

For profit · Serrano Group LLC

11 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.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold typical local cost 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.

Atherton

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Alhambra, CA yet.

Royal Gardens Healthcare

$12,004/mo

Typical for this care type in Alhambra, CA, 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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