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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.
Smith Village vs. Alden Estates of Northmoor
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.
Smith Village
Assisted Living, Nursing Homes, Memory Care
Alden Estates of Northmoor
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Smith Village
82 beds or units
Alden Estates of Northmoor
198 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 license status 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.
Smith Village
LICENSED
Issued by Illinois · License 5102006
Alden Estates of Northmoor
Not establishedIllinois'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.
Smith Village
3.0Published for 2026-07-01
Alden Estates of Northmoor
3.0Published for 2026-06-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Smith Village
24 citations
Most recent May 16, 2026
Alden Estates of Northmoor
40 citations
Most recent Jan 26, 2026
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Smith Village
2 actions
$16,350 in fines on record
Alden Estates of Northmoor
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.
Smith Village
5.27 hrs/resident/day
1.98 hours above the Illinois median of 3.29 hours.
Alden Estates of Northmoor
3.23 hrs/resident/day
0.06 hours below the Illinois median of 3.29 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Smith Village
Non profit · The Washington and Jane Smith Home
Alden Estates of Northmoor
For profit · The Alden Group, LTD.
27 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.
Smith Village
$6,244/mo
Typical for this care type in Chicago, IL, not a price from this provider
Alden Estates of Northmoor
$8,338/mo
Typical for this care type in Chicago, IL, 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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