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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.

Lakewood Gardens vs. Amable Care

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.

Lakewood Gardens

Assisted Living

Amable Care

Assisted Living

Licensed capacity

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

Lakewood Gardens

150 beds or units

Amable Care

6 beds or units

License status

The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.

Lakewood Gardens

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 197606651

Amable Care

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 198603919

Published rating

Whatever the publishing regulator published, on the scale the regulator used. Nothing here is rescaled to five stars.

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

Lakewood Gardens

Not comparable

California does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.

Amable Care

Not comparable

California does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.

Inspection citations

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

Lakewood Gardens

12 citations

Most recent Aug 4, 2026

Amable Care

1 citation

Most recent Jul 2, 2026

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.

Lakewood Gardens

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and California publishes no assisted living penalty list.

Amable Care

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and California publishes no assisted living penalty list.

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.

Lakewood Gardens

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.

Amable Care

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.

Ownership and chain

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

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no ownership and chain 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.

Lakewood Gardens

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

Amable Care

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

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.

Lakewood Gardens

$6,906/mo

Typical for this care type in Downey, CA, not a price from this provider

Amable Care

$6,906/mo

Typical for this care type in Downey, CA, not a price from this provider

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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