Compare each community's current DQA license status and survey history, its specific care-type license (CBRF vs. RCAC), staffing ratios and training, the actual monthly cost including any add-on care fees, and whether its program statement matches your loved one's specific needs.
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It helps to make this comparison on paper, side by side, rather than relying on memory of two separate tours that can start to blur together after a long day of visits. Ask each community for the same specific documents -- its current program statement, its most recent DQA survey, and a full written rate sheet including any tiered care-level pricing -- so you're comparing apples to apples rather than one community's polished sales pitch against another's raw paperwork. Because Wisconsin doesn't publish bed counts or pricing centrally, this kind of direct, document-based comparison is the only reliable way to see past marketing language to the actual regulatory and financial facts.
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