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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.

Westhaven Community vs. Eastern Star Masonic Home

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.

Westhaven Community

Assisted Living, Nursing Homes

Eastern Star Masonic Home

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Westhaven Community

40 beds or units

Eastern Star Masonic Home

76 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 license status for some of these providers and not for others, and we cannot yet say whether the gap means a clean record or a file we have not read. Treat the difference between these columns as unknown, not as a finding.

Westhaven Community

ACTIVE

Issued by Iowa · License S0321

Eastern Star Masonic Home

Not established

Iowa'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.

Westhaven Community

3.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Eastern Star Masonic Home

3.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Inspection citations

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

Westhaven Community

13 citations

Most recent Apr 3, 2025

Eastern Star Masonic Home

19 citations

Most recent May 21, 2026

Fines and payment denials

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

Westhaven Community

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.

Eastern Star Masonic Home

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.

Westhaven Community

4.10 hrs/resident/day

0.42 hours above the Iowa median of 3.68 hours.

Eastern Star Masonic Home

4.13 hrs/resident/day

0.45 hours above the Iowa median of 3.68 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Westhaven Community

Non profit - Corporation

Eastern Star Masonic Home

For profit · Brighton Consulting Group LLC

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.

Westhaven Community

$5,333/mo

Typical for this care type in Boone, IA, not a price from this provider

Eastern Star Masonic Home

$9,195/mo

Typical for this care type in Boone, IA, 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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