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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.
Dobson Plaza vs. Alpine Care of Evanston
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.
Dobson Plaza
Nursing Homes
Alpine Care of Evanston
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Dobson Plaza
97 beds or units
Alpine Care of Evanston
124 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.
Dobson Plaza
Not establishedIllinois'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.
Alpine Care of Evanston
Not establishedIllinois'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.
Dobson Plaza
5.0Published for 2026-07-01
Alpine Care of Evanston
4.0Published for 2026-08-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Dobson Plaza
10 citations
Most recent Jun 13, 2024
Alpine Care of Evanston
20 citations
Most recent Apr 24, 2026
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Dobson Plaza
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.
Alpine Care of Evanston
1 action
$40,258 in fines on record
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Dobson Plaza
2.96 hrs/resident/day
0.33 hours below the Illinois median of 3.29 hours.
Alpine Care of Evanston
3.16 hrs/resident/day
0.13 hours below the Illinois median of 3.29 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Dobson Plaza
For profit - Limited Liability company · Marquis Health Services
87 facilities in this CMS chain
Alpine Care of Evanston
For profit · GPN Family Trust U/A/D 4/28/08
REIT in the chain (CMS disclosure)
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.
Dobson Plaza
$8,338/mo
Typical for this care type in Evanston, IL, not a price from this provider
Alpine Care of Evanston
$8,338/mo
Typical for this care type in Evanston, IL, 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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