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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.
Merry Lake LLC vs. Brightcare Services INC
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.
Merry Lake LLC
Assisted Living
Brightcare Services INC
Assisted Living
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Merry Lake LLC
4 beds or units
Brightcare Services INC
4 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Merry Lake LLC
Active
Issued by Minnesota · License 421756
Brightcare Services INC
Active
Issued by Minnesota · License 424523
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.
Merry Lake LLC
Not comparableMinnesota does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.
Brightcare Services INC
Not comparableMinnesota 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.
Merry Lake LLC
Not establishedWe don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.
Brightcare Services INC
Not establishedWe 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.
Merry Lake LLC
Not comparableFines against assisted living are a state matter, and Minnesota publishes no assisted living penalty list.
Brightcare Services INC
Not comparableFines against assisted living are a state matter, and Minnesota 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.
Merry Lake LLC
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.
Brightcare Services INC
Not comparableStaffing 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.
Merry Lake LLC
Not establishedOwnership details are not on file yet.
Brightcare Services INC
Not establishedOwnership 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.
Merry Lake LLC
$6,607/mo
Typical for this care type in Minnetonka, MN, not a price from this provider
Brightcare Services INC
$6,607/mo
Typical for this care type in Minnetonka, MN, 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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