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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.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston vs. Kempton of Charleston
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.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston
Nursing Homes
Kempton of Charleston
Assisted Living, Nursing Homes, Memory Care
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston
88 beds or units
Kempton of Charleston
89 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 license status for some of these providers and not for others, and we cannot yet say whether the gap means a clean record or a file we have not read. Treat the difference between these columns as unknown, not as a finding.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston
Not establishedSouth Carolina'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.
Kempton of Charleston
ACTIVE
Issued by South Carolina · License CRC-2222
Published rating
Whatever the publishing regulator published, on the scale the regulator used. Nothing here is rescaled to five stars.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston
2.0Published for 2026-06-01
Kempton of Charleston
5.0Published for 2026-07-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston
9 citations
Most recent Apr 3, 2026
Kempton of Charleston
4 citations
Most recent May 6, 2025
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston
2 actions
Kempton of Charleston
1 action
$6,032 in fines on record
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston
5.09 hrs/resident/day
1.52 hours above the South Carolina median of 3.57 hours.
Kempton of Charleston
5.04 hrs/resident/day
1.47 hours above the South Carolina median of 3.57 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston
For profit · National Healthcare Corporation
69 facilities in this CMS chain
Kempton of Charleston
For profit · Spring Street Senior Housing JV Opco, 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.
NHC Healthcare - Charleston
$10,072/mo
Typical for this care type in Charleston, SC, not a price from this provider
Kempton of Charleston
$5,965/mo
Typical for this care type in Charleston, SC, 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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