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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.

Windsor Golden Living vs. Amber 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.

Windsor Golden Living

Assisted Living

Amber House

Assisted Living

Licensed capacity

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

Windsor Golden Living

6 beds or units

Amber House

6 beds or units

License status

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

Windsor Golden Living

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 496804011

Amber House

LICENSED

Issued by California · License 496800153

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.

Windsor Golden Living

Not comparable

California does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.

Amber House

Not comparable

California does not publish quality ratings for assisted living, and CMS does not rate it.

Inspection citations

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

Windsor Golden Living

5 citations

Most recent Dec 9, 2024

Amber House

1 citation

Most recent Oct 17, 2024

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.

Windsor Golden Living

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and California publishes no assisted living penalty list.

Amber House

Not comparable

Fines against assisted living are a state matter, and California publishes no assisted living penalty list.

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.

Windsor Golden Living

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.

Amber House

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for assisted living communities.

Ownership and chain

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

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no ownership and chain 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.

Windsor Golden Living

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

Amber House

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

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.

Windsor Golden Living

$7,415/mo

Typical for this care type in Windsor, CA, not a price from this provider

Amber House

$7,415/mo

Typical for this care type in Windsor, CA, not a price from this provider

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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