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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.
Randolph Manor vs. Arcola Towers
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.
Randolph Manor
Affordable Senior Apartments
Arcola Towers
Affordable Senior Apartments
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Randolph Manor
83 beds or units
Arcola Towers
141 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Randolph Manor
active
Issued by HUD · License LIHTC-MDA20040090
Arcola Towers
active
Issued by HUD · License LIHTC-MDA20170002
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.
Randolph Manor
Not comparableAffordable senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no agency rates the care at one. HUD and the Maryland housing finance agency that fund these properties publish rent limits and unit counts, not a quality rating. HUD does inspect the physical condition of the buildings it subsidises, and where it has inspected this one that score is under Inspection history below.
Arcola Towers
Not comparableAffordable senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no agency rates the care at one. HUD and the Maryland housing finance agency that fund these properties publish rent limits and unit counts, not a quality rating. HUD does inspect the physical condition of the buildings it subsidises, and where it has inspected this one that score is under Inspection history below.
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no inspection citations 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.
Randolph Manor
Not establishedNo inspection records are in our data yet. That can mean a clean record, or that this provider's inspection history has not been ingested. Verify directly with the state licensing agency above before assuming either.
Arcola Towers
Not establishedNo inspection records are in our data yet. That can mean a clean record, or that this provider's inspection history has not been ingested. Verify directly with the state licensing agency above before assuming either.
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.
Randolph Manor
Not comparableCMS's civil money penalty file covers certified nursing homes. Affordable senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no property in the program appears in it. Compliance for these buildings runs through HUD or the housing finance agency that funds them.
Arcola Towers
Not comparableCMS's civil money penalty file covers certified nursing homes. Affordable senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no property in the program appears in it. Compliance for these buildings runs through HUD or the housing finance agency that funds them.
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.
Randolph Manor
Not comparableStaffing hours are published for nursing homes and for no other kind of provider. Affordable senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, run by property management, and no agency collects a staffing return for them.
Arcola Towers
Not comparableStaffing hours are published for nursing homes and for no other kind of provider. Affordable senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, run by property management, and no agency collects a staffing return for them.
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.
Randolph Manor
Not establishedOwnership information not yet on file.
Arcola Towers
Not establishedOwnership information not yet on file.
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.
Randolph Manor
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Silver Spring, MD yet.
Arcola Towers
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Silver Spring, MD yet.
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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