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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.

Avir at Longview vs. Buckner Westminster Place

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.

Avir at Longview

Nursing Homes

Buckner Westminster Place

Assisted Living, Nursing Homes, Memory Care

Licensed capacity

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

Avir at Longview

115 beds or units

Buckner Westminster Place

61 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.

Avir at Longview

Not established

Texas'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.

Buckner Westminster Place

LICENSED

Issued by Texas · License 148317

Published rating

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

Avir at Longview

1.0

Published for 2026-07-01

Buckner Westminster Place

4.0

Published for 2026-07-01

Inspection citations

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

Avir at Longview

55 citations

Most recent May 7, 2026

Buckner Westminster Place

15 citations

Most recent Jun 4, 2025

Fines and payment denials

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

Avir at Longview

2 actions

$262,731 in fines on record

Buckner Westminster Place

2 actions

$29,716 in fines on record

Nurse staffing hours

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

Avir at Longview

3.56 hrs/resident/day

0.29 hours above the Texas median of 3.27 hours.

Buckner Westminster Place

5.28 hrs/resident/day

2.01 hours above the Texas median of 3.27 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Avir at Longview

Non profit · Avir Health Group

116 facilities in this CMS chain

Buckner Westminster Place

Non profit - Corporation · Buckner Retirement Services INC

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.

Avir at Longview

$5,364/mo

Typical for this care type in Longview, TX, not a price from this provider

Buckner Westminster Place

$5,402/mo

Typical for this care type in Longview, TX, 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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