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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.

Palms Retirement Center vs. Acacia Villas

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.

Palms Retirement Center

Assisted Living

Acacia Villas

Assisted Living

Licensed capacity

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

Palms Retirement Center

144 beds or units

Acacia Villas

99 beds or units

License status

The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.

Palms Retirement Center

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 306006071

Acacia Villas

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 306004749

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.

Palms Retirement Center

Not comparable

California does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.

Acacia Villas

Not comparable

California 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.

Palms Retirement Center

36 citations

Most recent Oct 13, 2026

Acacia Villas

4 citations

Most recent Aug 12, 2026

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.

Palms Retirement Center

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and California publishes no assisted living penalty list.

Acacia Villas

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and California 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.

Palms Retirement Center

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.

Acacia Villas

Not comparable

Staffing 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. We hold no ownership and chain 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.

Palms Retirement Center

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

Acacia Villas

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

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.

Palms Retirement Center

$6,906/mo

Typical for this care type in Fullerton, CA, not a price from this provider

Acacia Villas

$6,906/mo

Typical for this care type in Fullerton, CA, 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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