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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.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus vs. Brookestone Acres
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.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus
Assisted Living, Nursing Homes
Brookestone Acres
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus
145 beds or units
Brookestone Acres
80 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.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus
Licensed
Issued by Nebraska · License ALF445
Brookestone Acres
Not establishedNebraska'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.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus
1.0Published for 2026-07-01
Brookestone Acres
5.0Published for 2026-07-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus
22 citations
Most recent May 28, 2026
Brookestone Acres
14 citations
Most recent Sep 11, 2025
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus
1 action
Brookestone Acres
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.
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus
3.57 hrs/resident/day
0.34 hours below the Nebraska median of 3.91 hours.
Brookestone Acres
4.49 hrs/resident/day
0.58 hours above the Nebraska median of 3.91 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus
For profit · Emerald Healthcare LLC
14 facilities in this CMS chain
Brookestone Acres
Non profit · Vetter Senior Living
22 facilities in this CMS chain
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.
Emerald Nursing & Rehab Columbus
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Columbus, NE yet.
Brookestone Acres
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Columbus, NE 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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