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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.
Ridgeway Post Acute vs. Hillcrest Post Acute
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.
Ridgeway Post Acute
Nursing Homes
Hillcrest Post Acute
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Ridgeway Post Acute
79 beds or units
Hillcrest Post Acute
59 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.
Ridgeway Post Acute
Not establishedCalifornia'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 Post Acute
Not establishedCalifornia'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.
Ridgeway Post Acute
1.0Published for 2026-07-01
Hillcrest Post Acute
4.0Published for 2026-07-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Ridgeway Post Acute
56 citations
Most recent Dec 16, 2025
Hillcrest Post Acute
31 citations
Most recent Sep 11, 2025
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Ridgeway Post Acute
3 actions
$32,280 in fines on record
Hillcrest Post Acute
None on recordCMS lists no fines or payment denials for this facility. That comes from the Care Compare penalty file, updated monthly, which names every certified nursing home CMS has penalized in the last three years.
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Ridgeway Post Acute
4.10 hrs/resident/day
0.14 hours below the California median of 4.24 hours.
Hillcrest Post Acute
4.38 hrs/resident/day
0.14 hours above the California median of 4.24 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Ridgeway Post Acute
For profit
274 facilities in this CMS chain
Hillcrest Post Acute
For profit · West Harbor Healthcare LLC
8 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.
Ridgeway Post Acute
$12,889/mo
Typical for this care type in Petaluma, CA, not a price from this provider
Hillcrest Post Acute
$12,889/mo
Typical for this care type in Petaluma, CA, 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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