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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.
Northcrest Specialty Care vs. Friendship Village Retirement
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.
Northcrest Specialty Care
Nursing Homes
Friendship Village Retirement
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Northcrest Specialty Care
94 beds or units
Friendship Village Retirement
72 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.
Northcrest Specialty Care
Not establishedIowa'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.
Friendship Village Retirement
Not establishedIowa'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.
Northcrest Specialty Care
2.0Published for 2026-08-01
Friendship Village Retirement
5.0Published for 2026-08-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Northcrest Specialty Care
32 citations
Most recent Feb 12, 2026
Friendship Village Retirement
8 citations
Most recent Nov 17, 2025
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Northcrest Specialty Care
None on recordCMS 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.
Friendship Village Retirement
None on recordCMS 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.
Northcrest Specialty Care
3.29 hrs/resident/day
0.39 hours below the Iowa median of 3.68 hours.
Friendship Village Retirement
4.78 hrs/resident/day
1.10 hours above the Iowa median of 3.68 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Northcrest Specialty Care
Non profit
43 facilities in this CMS chain
Friendship Village Retirement
For profit · Friends of Faith Retirement Homes, 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.
Northcrest Specialty Care
$9,414/mo
Typical for this care type in Waterloo, IA, not a price from this provider
Friendship Village Retirement
$9,414/mo
Typical for this care type in Waterloo, 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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