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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.

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center vs. The Meridian

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.

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Nursing Homes

The Meridian

Assisted Living, Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

150 beds or units

The Meridian

14 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.

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

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.

The Meridian

LICENSED

Issued by Texas · License 307082

Published rating

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

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

1.0

Published for 2026-06-01

The Meridian

3.0

Published for 2026-07-01

Inspection citations

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

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

41 citations

Most recent Apr 22, 2026

The Meridian

21 citations

Most recent Jan 27, 2026

Fines and payment denials

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

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

8 actions

$241,516 in fines on record

The Meridian

None on record

Texas HHSC lists no administrative penalty for this community. HHSC publishes enforcement actions facility by facility in its TULIP licensing record, and we read the record of every licensed assisted living facility in the state, this one included.

Nurse staffing hours

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

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

2.74 hrs/resident/day

0.53 hours below the Texas median of 3.27 hours.

The Meridian

4.47 hrs/resident/day

1.20 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.

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Non profit · Cascades Healthcare

19 facilities in this CMS chain

The Meridian

For profit - Corporation

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.

Galveston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

$5,326/mo

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

The Meridian

$5,363/mo

Typical for this care type in Galveston, 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.

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