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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.

Merriman Care Community vs. Arden Courts (Bath)

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.

Merriman Care Community

Assisted Living

Arden Courts (Bath)

Assisted Living

Licensed capacity

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

Merriman Care Community

71 beds or units

Arden Courts (Bath)

56 beds or units

License status

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

Merriman Care Community

ACTIVE

Issued by Ohio · License 0523R

Arden Courts (Bath)

ACTIVE

Issued by Ohio · License 2259R

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.

Merriman Care Community

Not comparable

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

Arden Courts (Bath)

Not comparable

Ohio 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.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no inspection citations 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.

Merriman Care Community

Not established

We don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.

Arden Courts (Bath)

Not established

We don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.

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.

Merriman Care Community

Not comparable

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

Arden Courts (Bath)

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and Ohio 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.

Merriman Care Community

Not comparable

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

Arden Courts (Bath)

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. 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.

Merriman Care Community

Merriman Operations, LLC

Arden Courts (Bath)

Arden Courts 171 North Cleveland Massillon Rd, LLC

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.

Merriman Care Community

$6,077/mo

Typical for this care type in Akron, OH, not a price from this provider

Arden Courts (Bath)

$6,077/mo

Typical for this care type in Akron, OH, 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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