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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.

Sequoia Transitional Care vs. Gateway 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.

Sequoia Transitional Care

Nursing Homes

Gateway Post Acute

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Sequoia Transitional Care

99 beds or units

Gateway Post Acute

62 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.

Sequoia Transitional Care

Not established

California'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.

Gateway Post Acute

Not established

California'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.

Sequoia Transitional Care

4.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Gateway Post Acute

2.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Inspection citations

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

Sequoia Transitional Care

40 citations

Most recent Apr 2, 2026

Gateway Post Acute

51 citations

Most recent Jun 4, 2025

Fines and payment denials

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

Sequoia Transitional Care

2 actions

$41,759 in fines on record

Gateway Post Acute

1 action

$8,018 in fines on record

Nurse staffing hours

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

Sequoia Transitional Care

4.10 hrs/resident/day

0.14 hours below the California median of 4.24 hours.

Gateway Post Acute

3.95 hrs/resident/day

0.29 hours below the California median of 4.24 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Sequoia Transitional Care

For profit · Pacs Holdings, LLC

274 facilities in this CMS chain

Gateway Post Acute

For profit · Pacs Holdings, LLC

274 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.

Sequoia Transitional Care

$12,004/mo

Typical for this care type in Porterville, CA, not a price from this provider

Gateway Post Acute

$12,004/mo

Typical for this care type in Porterville, 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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