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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.
Wellbridge of Brighton vs. Medilodge of Howell
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.
Wellbridge of Brighton
Nursing Homes
Medilodge of Howell
Nursing Homes
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Wellbridge of Brighton
88 beds or units
Medilodge of Howell
206 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.
Wellbridge of Brighton
Not establishedMichigan'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.
Medilodge of Howell
Not establishedMichigan'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.
Wellbridge of Brighton
3.0Published for 2026-07-01
Medilodge of Howell
1.0Published for 2026-07-01
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Wellbridge of Brighton
26 citations
Most recent May 12, 2026
Medilodge of Howell
56 citations
Most recent Mar 23, 2026
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Wellbridge of Brighton
1 action
$26,686 in fines on record
Medilodge of Howell
2 actions
$71,919 in fines on record
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Wellbridge of Brighton
3.92 hrs/resident/day
0.12 hours above the Michigan median of 3.80 hours.
Medilodge of Howell
3.69 hrs/resident/day
0.11 hours below the Michigan median of 3.80 hours.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Wellbridge of Brighton
For profit
8 facilities in this CMS chain
Medilodge of Howell
For profit
53 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.
Wellbridge of Brighton
$11,265/mo
Typical for this care type in Howell, MI, not a price from this provider
Medilodge of Howell
$11,265/mo
Typical for this care type in Howell, MI, 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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