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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.

Emmetsburg Care Center vs. Lakeside Lutheran 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.

Emmetsburg Care Center

Nursing Homes

Lakeside Lutheran Home

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Emmetsburg Care Center

46 beds or units

Lakeside Lutheran Home

55 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.

Emmetsburg Care Center

Not established

Iowa'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.

Lakeside Lutheran Home

Not established

Iowa'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.

Emmetsburg Care Center

2.0

Published for 2026-06-01

Lakeside Lutheran Home

3.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Inspection citations

How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.

Emmetsburg Care Center

22 citations

Most recent May 11, 2026

Lakeside Lutheran Home

22 citations

Most recent Feb 26, 2026

Fines and payment denials

Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.

Emmetsburg Care Center

1 action

$25,695 in fines on record

Lakeside Lutheran Home

1 action

Nurse staffing hours

Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.

Emmetsburg Care Center

3.66 hrs/resident/day

0.02 hours below the Iowa median of 3.68 hours.

Lakeside Lutheran Home

4.11 hrs/resident/day

0.43 hours above the Iowa median of 3.68 hours.

Ownership and chain

Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.

Emmetsburg Care Center

For profit · Legacy Healthcare Financial Services LLC

89 facilities in this CMS chain

Lakeside Lutheran Home

Non profit · Iowa Trust & Savings Bank

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.

Emmetsburg Care Center

Not established

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

Lakeside Lutheran Home

Not established

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