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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.

Cedar River Tower vs. Exceptional Persons

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.

Cedar River Tower

Affordable Senior Apartments

Exceptional Persons

Affordable Senior Apartments

Licensed capacity

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

Cedar River Tower

85 beds or units

Exceptional Persons

64 beds or units

License status

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

Cedar River Tower

active

Issued by HUD · License S202-800005236

Exceptional Persons

active

Issued by HUD · License S202-800249130

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.

Cedar River Tower

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.

Exceptional Persons

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.

Cedar River Tower

1 citation

Most recent Jun 7, 2024

Exceptional Persons

1 citation

Most recent May 6, 2025

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.

Cedar River Tower

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.

Exceptional Persons

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.

Cedar River Tower

Not comparable

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

Exceptional Persons

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. Both providers have ownership and chain on record, but the record for at least one of them may be incomplete. Read the smaller number as "at least this many", not a total.

Cedar River Tower

Seldin LLC

Managed by Seldin LLC, who runs it rather than owns it

Exceptional Persons

Exceptional Persons Inc

Managed by Exceptional Persons Inc, who runs it rather than owns it

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.

Cedar River Tower

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Waterloo, IA yet.

Exceptional Persons

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Waterloo, IA 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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