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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.

Norwood Healthcare vs. Ellis Nursing Home (The)

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.

Norwood Healthcare

Nursing Homes

Ellis Nursing Home (The)

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Norwood Healthcare

170 beds or units

Ellis Nursing Home (The)

191 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.

Norwood Healthcare

Not established

Massachusetts'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.

Ellis Nursing Home (The)

Not established

Massachusetts'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.

Norwood Healthcare

1.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Ellis Nursing Home (The)

4.0

Published for 2026-07-01

Inspection citations

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

Norwood Healthcare

68 citations

Most recent May 5, 2026

Ellis Nursing Home (The)

44 citations

Most recent Jan 15, 2026

Fines and payment denials

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

Norwood Healthcare

6 actions

$110,264 in fines on record

Ellis Nursing Home (The)

1 action

$57,158 in fines on record

Nurse staffing hours

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

Norwood Healthcare

3.48 hrs/resident/day

0.22 hours below the Massachusetts median of 3.70 hours.

Ellis Nursing Home (The)

3.85 hrs/resident/day

0.15 hours above the Massachusetts median of 3.70 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Norwood Healthcare

For profit · Next Step Healthcare LLC

14 facilities in this CMS chain

Ellis Nursing Home (The)

For profit · A. Franchi Contractors, 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.

Norwood Healthcare

$14,441/mo

Typical for this care type in Norwood, MA, not a price from this provider

Ellis Nursing Home (The)

$14,441/mo

Typical for this care type in Norwood, MA, 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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