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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.
Light House vs. Birdie House
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.
Light House
Assisted Living
Birdie House
Assisted Living
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Light House
6 beds or units
Birdie House
6 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Light House
LICENSED
Issued by California · License 496803621
Birdie House
CLOSED
Issued by California · License 496801117
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.
Light House
Not comparableCalifornia publishes no quality rating for assisted living, so no community in this state carries one. CMS star ratings cover the providers Medicare certifies, which does not include assisted living.
Birdie House
Not comparableCalifornia publishes no quality rating for assisted living, so no community in this state carries one. CMS star ratings cover the providers Medicare certifies, which does not include assisted living.
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Light House
1 citation
Most recent Mar 10, 2022
Birdie House
None on recordCalifornia's Community Care Licensing Division records no Type A or Type B citations for this community. We read the licensing record facility by facility for every California license in this category, this one included.
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.
Light House
Not comparableFines against an assisted living community are a state matter. CMS publishes civil money penalties for the nursing homes it certifies, and assisted living is not certified by CMS, so no community appears in that file. California publishes no assisted living penalty list we can read.
Birdie House
Not comparableFines against an assisted living community are a state matter. CMS publishes civil money penalties for the nursing homes it certifies, and assisted living is not certified by CMS, so no community appears in that file. California publishes no assisted living penalty list we can read.
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.
Light House
Not comparableStaffing hours are published for nursing homes and for no other kind of provider. Federal law requires Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes to file payroll-based nurse hours with CMS every quarter, and no agency collects the same return from assisted living communities.
Birdie House
Not comparableStaffing hours are published for nursing homes and for no other kind of provider. Federal law requires Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes to file payroll-based nurse hours with CMS every quarter, and no agency collects the same return from 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.
Light House
Not establishedOwnership information not yet on file.
Birdie House
Not establishedOwnership information not yet on file.
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.
Light House
$7,415/mo
Typical for this care type in Windsor, CA, not a price from this provider
Birdie House
$7,415/mo
Typical for this care type in Windsor, CA, 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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