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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.

Mill-Pond vs. On with Life

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.

Mill-Pond

Nursing Homes

On with Life

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Mill-Pond

60 beds or units

On with Life

28 beds or units

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.

Mill-Pond

Not established

Iowa'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.

On with Life

Not established

Iowa'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.

Mill-Pond

5.0

Published for 2026-08-01

On with Life

4.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Inspection citations

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

Mill-Pond

10 citations

Most recent Mar 19, 2026

On with Life

1 citation

Most recent Oct 10, 2024

Fines and payment denials

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

Mill-Pond

None on record

CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this facility. That comes from the Care Compare penalty file, updated monthly, which names every certified nursing home CMS has penalized in the last three years.

On with Life

None on record

CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this facility. That comes from the Care Compare penalty file, updated monthly, which names every certified nursing home CMS has penalized in the last three years.

Nurse staffing hours

Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.

Mill-Pond

4.58 hrs/resident/day

0.90 hours above the Iowa median of 3.68 hours.

On with Life

None on record

CMS published no staffing hours for this facility in the quarters we hold. Certified nursing homes file payroll-based nurse hours with CMS every quarter, and a facility drops out of a quarter's file when it is newly certified or its submission was not accepted.

Ownership and chain

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

Mill-Pond

Non profit · Presbyterian Homes and Services

21 facilities in this CMS chain

On with Life

Non profit - Corporation · On with Life INC

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.

Mill-Pond

$9,373/mo

Typical for this care type in Ankeny, IA, not a price from this provider

On with Life

$9,373/mo

Typical for this care type in Ankeny, IA, 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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