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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.
Sterling Plaza vs. Independent Residential Services
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.
Sterling Plaza
Affordable Senior Apartments
Independent Residential Services
Affordable Senior Apartments
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Sterling Plaza
54 beds or units
Independent Residential Services
13 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Sterling Plaza
active
Issued by HUD · License S202-800223982
Independent Residential Services
active
Issued by HUD · License S202-800011645
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.
Sterling Plaza
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.
Independent Residential Services
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.
Sterling Plaza
1 citation
Most recent Sep 19, 2024
Independent Residential Services
1 citation
Most recent Aug 29, 2024
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.
Sterling Plaza
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.
Independent Residential Services
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.
Sterling Plaza
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes. Senior apartments are housing run by property managers.
Independent Residential Services
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.
Sterling Plaza
National Church Residences
Managed by National Church Residences, who runs it rather than owns it
Independent Residential Services
Burrell INC.
Managed by Burrell 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.
Sterling Plaza
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Independence, MO yet.
Independent Residential Services
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Independence, MO 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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