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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.
North Birch vs. Rob's 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.
North Birch
Assisted Living
Rob's House
Assisted Living
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
North Birch
6 beds or units
Rob's House
6 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
North Birch
REGULAR
Issued by Michigan · License AS400069154
Rob's House
REGULAR
Issued by Michigan · License AS400405101
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.
North Birch
Not comparableMichigan does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.
Rob's House
Not comparableMichigan 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.
North Birch
Not establishedWe don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.
Rob's House
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.
North Birch
Not comparableFines against assisted living are a state matter, and Michigan publishes no assisted living penalty list.
Rob's House
Not comparableFines against assisted living are a state matter, and Michigan 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.
North Birch
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.
Rob's House
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. 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.
North Birch
Crisis Center INC - DBA Listening Ear
Rob's House
Individual or partnership licensee (Michigan LARA) · Julie Clark
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.
North Birch
$6,049/mo
Typical for this care type in Kalkaska, MI, not a price from this provider
Rob's House
$6,049/mo
Typical for this care type in Kalkaska, MI, 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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