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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.

Walnut Street Center vs. Center House

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.

Walnut Street Center

Affordable Senior Apartments

Center House

Affordable Senior Apartments

Licensed capacity

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

Walnut Street Center

30 beds or units

Center House

9 beds or units

License status

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

Walnut Street Center

active

Issued by HUD · License S202-800008982

Center House

active

Issued by HUD · License S202-800008377

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.

Walnut Street Center

Not comparable

Senior 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.

Center House

Not comparable

Senior 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.

Walnut Street Center

1 citation

Most recent Nov 13, 2025

Center House

1 citation

Most recent Apr 22, 2025

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.

Walnut Street Center

Not comparable

CMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only. For senior apartments, compliance runs through HUD or the agency that funds the property.

Center House

Not comparable

CMS'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.

Walnut Street Center

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes. Senior apartments are housing run by property managers.

Center House

Not comparable

Staffing 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.

Walnut Street Center

Walnut Street Center, Inc.

Managed by Walnut Street Center, Inc., who runs it rather than owns it

Center House

Wingate Management Company, LLC

Managed by Wingate Management Company, LLC, 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.

Walnut Street Center

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Somerville, MA yet.

Center House

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Somerville, MA 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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