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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.
Rocky Coast House vs. Beechwood Apts
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.
Rocky Coast House
Affordable Senior Apartments
Beechwood Apts
Affordable Senior Apartments
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Rocky Coast House
32 beds or units
Beechwood Apts
15 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Rocky Coast House
active
Issued by HUD · License S202-800057630
Beechwood Apts
active
Issued by USDA · License S515-000008796
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.
Rocky Coast House
Not comparableAffordable senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no agency rates the care at one. HUD and the Maine 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.
Beechwood Apts
Not comparableAffordable senior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no agency rates the care at one. HUD and the Maine 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 inspection citations for some of these providers and not for others, and we cannot yet say whether the gap means a clean record or a file we have not read. Treat the difference between these columns as unknown, not as a finding.
Rocky Coast House
None on recordHUD has published no physical inspection for this property. We hold HUD's whole REAC inspection file for its assisted housing portfolio, which records every inspection HUD has scored since 2000, and this building does not appear in it. A property is usually absent because it entered the portfolio after HUD's last inspection round.
Beechwood Apts
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.
Rocky Coast House
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.
Beechwood Apts
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.
Rocky Coast House
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.
Beechwood Apts
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. Both providers have ownership and chain on record, but for at least one of them we cannot confirm we hold the complete file. Read the smaller number as "at least this many" rather than as a total, and the gap between the columns as unknown.
Rocky Coast House
VOA Northern New England, Inc.
Managed by VOA Northern New England, Inc., who runs it rather than owns it
Beechwood Apts
Preservation Mgmt INC
Managed by Preservation Mgmt INC, who runs it rather than owns it
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.
Rocky Coast House
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Thomaston, ME yet.
Beechwood Apts
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Thomaston, ME 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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