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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.

Cascade Cluster vs. Alaska House

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.

Cascade Cluster

Affordable Senior Apartments

Alaska House

Affordable Senior Apartments

Licensed capacity

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

Cascade Cluster

6 beds or units

Alaska House

105 beds or units

License status

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

Cascade Cluster

active

Issued by HUD · License S202-800022397

Alaska House

active

Issued by HUD · License LIHTC-WAA20059043

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.

Cascade Cluster

Not comparable

Senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no agency rates the care. HUD inspects the buildings it funds, and any HUD score appears under Inspection history.

Alaska House

Not comparable

Senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no agency rates the care. HUD inspects the buildings it funds, and any HUD score appears under Inspection history.

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.

Cascade Cluster

1 citation

Most recent Mar 17, 2025

Alaska House

Not established

We don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.

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.

Cascade Cluster

Not comparable

CMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only. For senior apartments, compliance runs through HUD or the agency that funds the property.

Alaska House

Not comparable

CMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only. For senior apartments, compliance runs through HUD or the agency that funds the property.

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.

Cascade Cluster

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes. Senior apartments are housing run by property managers.

Alaska House

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes. Senior apartments are housing run by property managers.

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.

Cascade Cluster

Sound Mental Health

Managed by Sound Mental Health, who runs it rather than owns it

Alaska House

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.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no typical local cost 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.

Cascade Cluster

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Seattle, WA yet.

Alaska House

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Seattle, WA yet.

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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