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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.

Piper Shores vs. Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

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.

Piper Shores

Nursing Homes

Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Piper Shores

40 beds or units

Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

120 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.

Piper Shores

Not established

Maine'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.

Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

Not established

Maine'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.

Piper Shores

5.0

Published for 2026-07-01

Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

5.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Inspection citations

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

Piper Shores

21 citations

Most recent Dec 12, 2025

Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

9 citations

Most recent Jun 17, 2025

Fines and payment denials

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

Piper Shores

None on record

CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this nursing home in the last three years.

Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

None on record

CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this nursing home in the last three years.

Nurse staffing hours

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

Piper Shores

5.28 hrs/resident/day

0.98 hours above the Maine median of 4.30 hours.

Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

5.02 hrs/resident/day

0.72 hours above the Maine median of 4.30 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Piper Shores

Non profit - Corporation

Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

Non profit - Corporation · Maine Veterans' Home

5 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.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no typical local cost 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.

Piper Shores

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Scarborough, ME yet.

Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Scarborough, ME yet.

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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