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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.
Pathstone Living vs. Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
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.
Pathstone Living
Nursing Homes
Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Pathstone Living
69 beds or units
Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
95 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.
Pathstone Living
Not establishedMinnesota'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.
Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
Not establishedMinnesota'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.
Pathstone Living
2.0Published for 2026-07-01
Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
2.0Published for 2026-06-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Pathstone Living
39 citations
Most recent Mar 6, 2026
Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
41 citations
Most recent Aug 14, 2025
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Pathstone Living
3 actions
$120,546 in fines on record
Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
1 action
$17,345 in fines on record
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Pathstone Living
4.92 hrs/resident/day
0.76 hours above the Minnesota median of 4.16 hours.
Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
3.55 hrs/resident/day
0.61 hours below the Minnesota median of 4.16 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Pathstone Living
Non profit - Corporation · Ecumen
5 facilities in this CMS chain
Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
For profit - Corporation
45 facilities in this CMS chain
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.
Pathstone Living
$10,343/mo
Typical for this care type in Mankato, MN, not a price from this provider
Hillcrest Health Care, LLC
$10,343/mo
Typical for this care type in Mankato, MN, 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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