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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.

Gentiva II vs. Elara Caring

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.

Gentiva II

Hospice Care

Elara Caring

Hospice Care

Licensed capacity

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

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no licensed capacity 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.

Gentiva II

Not established

The roster we read for this provider does not carry a licensed capacity. Not every state publishes one.

Elara Caring

Not established

The roster we read for this provider does not carry a licensed capacity. Not every state publishes one.

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.

Gentiva II

Not established

Michigan'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.

Elara Caring

Not established

Michigan'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.

Gentiva II

3.0

Published for hospice-cahps:04/01/2023-03/31/2025

Elara Caring

3.0

Published for hospice-cahps:04/01/2023-03/31/2025

Inspection citations

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

Gentiva II

12 citations

Most recent Oct 5, 2023

Elara Caring

18 citations

Most recent May 2, 2025

Fines and payment denials

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

Not a like-for-like comparison. No public system publishes fines and payment denials for either of these providers, so there is nothing to compare here for either one.

Gentiva II

Not comparable

CMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no hospice appears in it.

Elara Caring

Not comparable

CMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no hospice appears in it.

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.

Gentiva II

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for hospices.

Elara Caring

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for hospices.

Ownership and chain

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

Not a like-for-like comparison. Both providers have ownership and chain on record, but the record for at least one of them may be incomplete. Read the smaller number as "at least this many", not a total.

Gentiva II

For-Profit

Elara Caring

For-Profit

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.

Gentiva II

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Jackson, MI yet.

Elara Caring

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Jackson, MI yet.

What the blank cells mean

None on record.
The public record covers this provider and lists nothing.
Not comparable.
No agency publishes this measure for this kind of provider. Shown hatched.
Not established.
We don't have this record for this provider yet.

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