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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.
Desert Sage Retirement Community vs. Brookdale Bend
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.
Desert Sage Retirement Community
Assisted Living
Brookdale Bend
Assisted Living, Memory Care
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Desert Sage Retirement Community
95 beds or units
Brookdale Bend
59 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Desert Sage Retirement Community
Active
Issued by Oregon · License 70M217
Brookdale Bend
Active
Issued by Oregon · License 50A263
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. We hold no published rating 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.
Desert Sage Retirement Community
Not comparableOregon publishes no quality rating for assisted living, so no community in this state carries one. CMS star ratings cover the providers Medicare certifies, which does not include assisted living.
Brookdale Bend
Not establishedNo published quality rating for this provider yet. Not every care type or state publishes a star rating. This is not necessarily a red flag.
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Desert Sage Retirement Community
46 citations
Most recent Feb 4, 2026
Brookdale Bend
86 citations
Most recent Feb 9, 2026
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no fines and payment denials 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.
Desert Sage Retirement Community
Not comparableFines against an assisted living community are a state matter. CMS publishes civil money penalties for the nursing homes it certifies, and assisted living is not certified by CMS, so no community appears in that file. Oregon publishes no assisted living penalty list we can read.
Brookdale Bend
Not establishedNo fines or enforcement actions from the state licensing agency are in our data for this provider yet.
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.
Desert Sage Retirement Community
Not comparableStaffing hours are published for nursing homes and for no other kind of provider. Federal law requires Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes to file payroll-based nurse hours with CMS every quarter, and no agency collects the same return from assisted living communities.
Brookdale Bend
Not comparableStaffing hours are published for nursing homes and for no other kind of provider. Federal law requires Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes to file payroll-based nurse hours with CMS every quarter, and no agency collects the same return from assisted living communities.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no ownership and chain 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.
Desert Sage Retirement Community
Not establishedOwnership information not yet on file.
Brookdale Bend
Not establishedOwnership information not yet on file.
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.
Desert Sage Retirement Community
$6,505/mo
Typical for this care type in Bend, OR, not a price from this provider
Brookdale Bend
$6,505/mo
Typical for this care type in Bend, OR, 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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