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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.

Whitney Center vs. Arden Care Center

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.

Whitney Center

Assisted Living, Nursing Homes

Arden Care Center

Nursing Homes

Licensed capacity

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

Whitney Center

59 beds or units

Arden Care Center

271 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.

Whitney Center

ACTIVE IN RENEWAL

Issued by Connecticut · License ALSA.0AL0001

Arden Care Center

Not established

Connecticut'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.

Whitney Center

3.0

Published for 2026-06-01

Arden Care Center

1.0

Published for 2026-08-01

Inspection citations

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

Whitney Center

30 citations

Most recent Dec 4, 2024

Arden Care Center

94 citations

Most recent Apr 15, 2026

Fines and payment denials

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

Whitney Center

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.

Arden Care Center

3 actions

$87,831 in fines on record

Nurse staffing hours

Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.

Whitney Center

2.63 hrs/resident/day

1.08 hours below the Connecticut median of 3.71 hours.

Arden Care Center

3.53 hrs/resident/day

0.18 hours below the Connecticut median of 3.71 hours.

Ownership and chain

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

Whitney Center

Non profit - Corporation

Arden Care Center

For profit - Limited Liability company · Highbridge Healthcare

6 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.

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.

Whitney Center

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Hamden, CT yet.

Arden Care Center

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Hamden, CT yet.

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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