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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.

Valley Crest vs. Alphalife Homecare

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.

Valley Crest

Assisted Living

Alphalife Homecare

Assisted Living

Licensed capacity

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

Valley Crest

65 beds or units

Alphalife Homecare

12 beds or units

License status

The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.

Valley Crest

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 365530263

Alphalife Homecare

CLOSED

Issued by California · License 361880860

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.

Valley Crest

Not comparable

California does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.

Alphalife Homecare

Not comparable

California does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.

Inspection citations

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

Valley Crest

5 citations

Most recent Sep 17, 2026

Alphalife Homecare

3 citations

Most recent Feb 22, 2023

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.

Valley Crest

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and California publishes no assisted living penalty list.

Alphalife Homecare

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and California publishes no assisted living penalty list.

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.

Valley Crest

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.

Alphalife Homecare

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living 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.

Valley Crest

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

Alphalife Homecare

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

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.

Valley Crest

$6,906/mo

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

Alphalife Homecare

$6,906/mo

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

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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