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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.

Ridgewood Specialty Care vs. Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

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.

Ridgewood Specialty Care

Nursing Homes

Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Ridgewood Specialty Care

60 beds or units

Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

126 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.

Ridgewood Specialty Care

Not established

Iowa'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.

Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

Not established

Iowa'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.

Ridgewood Specialty Care

3.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

3.0

Published for 2026-06-01

Inspection citations

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

Ridgewood Specialty Care

18 citations

Most recent Dec 22, 2025

Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

36 citations

Most recent Dec 4, 2025

Fines and payment denials

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

Ridgewood Specialty Care

1 action

$8,999 in fines on record

Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

2 actions

$91,569 in fines on record

Nurse staffing hours

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

Ridgewood Specialty Care

3.27 hrs/resident/day

0.41 hours below the Iowa median of 3.68 hours.

Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

3.63 hrs/resident/day

0.05 hours below the Iowa median of 3.68 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Ridgewood Specialty Care

Non profit

43 facilities in this CMS chain

Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

Non profit

92 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.

Ridgewood Specialty Care

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Ottumwa, IA yet.

Good Samaritan - Ottumwa

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Ottumwa, IA 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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