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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.
Diversicare of Marion vs. Southland Nursing Home
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.
Diversicare of Marion
Nursing Homes
Southland Nursing Home
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Diversicare of Marion
71 beds or units
Southland Nursing Home
91 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 no license status 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.
Diversicare of Marion
Not establishedAlabama'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.
Southland Nursing Home
Not establishedAlabama'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.
Published rating
Whatever the publishing regulator published, on the scale the regulator used. Nothing here is rescaled to five stars.
Diversicare of Marion
5.0Published for 2026-08-01
Southland Nursing Home
5.0Published for 2026-07-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Diversicare of Marion
5 citations
Most recent Aug 19, 2022
Southland Nursing Home
7 citations
Most recent Apr 22, 2021
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Diversicare of Marion
None on recordCMS lists no fines or payment denials for this facility. That comes from the Care Compare penalty file, updated monthly, which names every certified nursing home CMS has penalized in the last three years.
Southland Nursing Home
1 action
$5,244 in fines on record
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Diversicare of Marion
2.96 hrs/resident/day
0.93 hours below the Alabama median of 3.89 hours.
Southland Nursing Home
3.91 hrs/resident/day
0.02 hours above the Alabama median of 3.89 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Diversicare of Marion
For profit · Diversicare Healthcare Services LLC
44 facilities in this CMS chain
Southland Nursing Home
For profit · Sasser Enterprises 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.
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.
Diversicare of Marion
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Marion, AL yet.
Southland Nursing Home
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Marion, AL yet.
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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