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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.
Syncare Joy Home vs. Amira Choice Minnetonka
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.
Syncare Joy Home
Memory Care
Amira Choice Minnetonka
Memory Care
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Syncare Joy Home
5 beds or units
Amira Choice Minnetonka
125 beds or units
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Syncare Joy Home
Active
Issued by Minnesota · License 423379
Amira Choice Minnetonka
Active
Issued by Minnesota · License 424475
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. We hold no published rating 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.
Syncare Joy Home
Not establishedNo published quality rating for this provider yet. Not every care type or state publishes a star rating. This is not necessarily a red flag.
Amira Choice Minnetonka
Not establishedNo published quality rating for this provider yet. Not every care type or state publishes a star rating. This is not necessarily a red flag.
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no inspection citations 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.
Syncare Joy Home
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.
Amira Choice Minnetonka
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. We hold no fines and payment denials 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.
Syncare Joy Home
Not establishedNo fines or enforcement actions from the state licensing agency are in our data for this provider yet.
Amira Choice Minnetonka
Not establishedNo fines or enforcement actions from the state licensing agency are in our data for this provider yet.
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.
Syncare Joy Home
Not comparableStaffing hours are published for nursing homes and for no other kind of provider. Federal law requires Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes to file payroll-based nurse hours with CMS every quarter, and no agency collects the same return from memory care communities.
Amira Choice Minnetonka
Not comparableStaffing hours are published for nursing homes and for no other kind of provider. Federal law requires Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes to file payroll-based nurse hours with CMS every quarter, and no agency collects the same return from memory care communities.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no ownership and chain 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.
Syncare Joy Home
Not establishedOwnership information not yet on file.
Amira Choice Minnetonka
Not establishedOwnership information not yet on file.
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.
Syncare Joy Home
$8,259/mo
Typical for this care type in Minnetonka, MN, not a price from this provider
Amira Choice Minnetonka
$8,259/mo
Typical for this care type in Minnetonka, MN, 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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