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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.

The Greens at Hickory vs. Trinity Ridge

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.

The Greens at Hickory

Nursing Homes

Trinity Ridge

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

The Greens at Hickory

150 beds or units

Trinity Ridge

120 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.

The Greens at Hickory

Not established

North Carolina'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.

Trinity Ridge

Not established

North Carolina'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.

The Greens at Hickory

2.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Trinity Ridge

5.0

Published for 2026-07-01

Inspection citations

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

The Greens at Hickory

21 citations

Most recent Jan 28, 2026

Trinity Ridge

5 citations

Most recent Jun 18, 2026

Fines and payment denials

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

The Greens at Hickory

None on record

CMS 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.

Trinity Ridge

None on record

CMS 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.

The Greens at Hickory

3.74 hrs/resident/day

0.22 hours above the North Carolina median of 3.52 hours.

Trinity Ridge

4.57 hrs/resident/day

1.05 hours above the North Carolina median of 3.52 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

The Greens at Hickory

For profit

33 facilities in this CMS chain

Trinity Ridge

Non profit

9 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.

The Greens at Hickory

$9,232/mo

Typical for this care type in Hickory, NC, not a price from this provider

Trinity Ridge

$9,232/mo

Typical for this care type in Hickory, NC, 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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