Tools
Compare Providers
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 Healthcare Center vs. Bakersfield Post Acute
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 Healthcare Center
Nursing Homes
Bakersfield Post Acute
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Valley Healthcare Center
87 beds or units
Bakersfield Post Acute
99 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.
Valley Healthcare Center
Not establishedCalifornia'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.
Bakersfield Post Acute
Not establishedCalifornia'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.
Valley Healthcare Center
1.0Published for 2026-07-01
Bakersfield Post Acute
1.0Published for 2026-07-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Valley Healthcare Center
78 citations
Most recent Jan 29, 2026
Bakersfield Post Acute
125 citations
Most recent May 14, 2026
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Valley Healthcare Center
5 actions
$99,934 in fines on record
Bakersfield Post Acute
3 actions
$25,940 in fines on record
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Valley Healthcare Center
3.78 hrs/resident/day
0.46 hours below the California median of 4.24 hours.
Bakersfield Post Acute
4.01 hrs/resident/day
0.23 hours below the California median of 4.24 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Valley Healthcare Center
For profit · VPR Ops, LLC
Bakersfield Post Acute
For profit
274 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.
Valley Healthcare Center
$12,004/mo
Typical for this care type in Bakersfield, CA, not a price from this provider
Bakersfield Post Acute
$12,004/mo
Typical for this care type in Bakersfield, CA, 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.
This page's URL holds only the provider slugs you chose, so you can copy and share it. It never contains personal information.