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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.
Rose Acres vs. Caribou Congregate Housing
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.
Rose Acres
Affordable Senior Apartments
Caribou Congregate Housing
Affordable Senior Apartments
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Rose Acres
66 beds or units
Caribou Congregate Housing
20 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Rose Acres
active
Issued by USDA · License S515-000008916
Caribou Congregate Housing
active
Issued by HUD · License S202-800009601
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.
Rose Acres
Not comparableSenior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no agency rates the care. HUD inspects the buildings it funds, and any HUD score appears under Inspection history.
Caribou Congregate Housing
Not comparableSenior apartments are housing rather than licensed care, so no agency rates the care. HUD inspects the buildings it funds, and any HUD score appears under Inspection history.
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.
Rose Acres
Not establishedWe don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.
Caribou Congregate Housing
1 citation
Most recent Nov 20, 2025
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.
Rose Acres
Not comparableCMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only. For senior apartments, compliance runs through HUD or the agency that funds the property.
Caribou Congregate Housing
Not comparableCMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only. For senior apartments, compliance runs through HUD or the agency that funds the property.
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.
Rose Acres
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes. Senior apartments are housing run by property managers.
Caribou Congregate Housing
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes. Senior apartments are housing run by property managers.
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 the record for at least one of them may be incomplete. Read the smaller number as "at least this many", not a total.
Rose Acres
Rose Acres, INC
Managed by Rose Acres, INC, who runs it rather than owns it
Caribou Congregate Housing
AROOSTOOK AREA AGENCY ON AGING
Managed by AROOSTOOK AREA AGENCY ON AGING, 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.
Rose Acres
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Caribou, ME yet.
Caribou Congregate Housing
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Caribou, 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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