zReports Research Institute · Updated August 2026
Ohio has 921 active licensed nursing homes on the state's public file. zReports analyzed CMS Nursing Home Compare data to produce a records layer grade for every one, the government's own verdicts, mapped through one fixed rule. No facility can pay to change a score, and the grade is free.
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| Active licensed nursing homes | 921 |
| Cities covered | 362 |
| Statewide average records layer score | 76.6 |
| Grade A facilities | 404 (43.9%) |
| Grade B facilities | 185 (20.1%) |
| Grade C facilities | 198 (21.5%) |
| Grade D facilities | 119 (12.9%) |
| Grade F facilities | 15 (1.6%) |
| Facilities with a clean record (no deficiencies on file) | 921 (100%) |
| Serious (high severity) findings on the record | 0 |
| Moderate findings on the record | 0 |
| Combined licensed capacity | 81,070 |
Average records layer score by city (cities with 10+ facilities), against the statewide average of 76.6.
| City | Facilities | Avg score | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton | 11 | 89.8 | +13.2 |
| Cincinnati | 70 | 77.3 | +0.7 |
| Cleveland | 19 | 73.5 | -3.1 |
| Akron | 12 | 72.9 | -3.7 |
| Dayton | 19 | 72.7 | -3.9 |
| Columbus | 31 | 70.8 | -5.8 |
| Youngstown | 14 | 67.6 | -9 |
| Springfield | 11 | 67.5 | -9.1 |
| Toledo | 15 | 66.4 | -10.2 |
#1 Lutheran Home Westlake · A
#2 Ohio Living Rockynol Akron · A
#3 Heritage Manor Jewish Hm For Youngstown · A
#4 Wilmington Nursing & Rehab Wilmington · A
#5 Vancrest Of St Mary'S St Marys · A
#6 Homestead II Painesville · A
#7 Vancrest Health Care Center Van Wert · A
#8 Piqua Manor Piqua · A
#9 Carington Park Ashtabula · A
#10 Altercare Post-Acute Rehab Center Kent · A
#11 Bridgeport Health Care Center Portsmouth · A
#12 Shelby Pointe Shelby · A
#13 Locust Ridge Healthcare LLC Williamsburg · A
#14 The Manor At Greendale Findlay · A
#15 Otterbein Lebanon Retirement Community Lebanon · A
#16 Maple Knoll Village Cincinnati · A
#17 Briar Hill Health Campus North Baltimore · A
#18 Westerwood Rehabilitation Columbus · A
#19 Pleasant View Health Care Center Barberton · A
#20 Meadows Of Kalida Kalida · A
#21 Andover Village Retirement Community Andover · A
#22 Sanctuary Wadsworth Wadsworth · A
#23 Beechwood Home For Incurables Cincinnati · A
#24 Pearlview Rehab & Wellness Ctr Brunswick · A
#25 Circleville Post-Acute Circleville · A
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Nursing Homes in Ohio are overseen by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), whose certification, inspection, and quality-reporting data is published on the public record. This page is computed from CMS Nursing Home Compare data, the government’s own filings, not reviews or advertising.
Ohio has 921 active licensed nursing homes on the state's public file, across 362 cities, with a combined licensed capacity of 81,070. Every one has a free records layer grade on zReports.
Cincinnati, with 70 licensed nursing homes, followed by Columbus (31) and Cleveland (19).
The free records layer grade contains zero zReports judgment. It maps the government's own published verdicts, CMS Nursing Home Compare data, through one fixed rule, applied identically to every nursing home in the country. The paid Consumer Intelligence Report™ adds the composite Consumer Z Score™, which audits the record against public reputation through our published ten point methodology.
Reviews and records are different surfaces. Reviews reflect what visitors chose to write, and can be managed by the business. Inspection and enforcement records are filed by the state, are mandatory, and cannot be edited by the facility. When the two diverge, the record is the surface worth checking. That divergence is exactly what zReports was built to surface.
Rankings refresh whenever Ohio republishes its licensing data; facility pages carry the records-verified date for each provider. This page was generated from the current file as of August 2026.
No. Facilities are never contacted, never notified, and cannot pay to be listed, delisted, or re-scored. zReports has no business relationship with any facility it grades, independence is the product.
This report was generated from the zReports Consumer Records Database™, a continuously updated database that normalizes official government licensing, inspection, enforcement, ownership, and safety records across multiple federal and state agencies. Every statistic in this report is traceable to its originating public record. Facilities cannot pay to alter scores, rankings, or findings.
Data source: zReports Consumer Intelligence Database™ v2026.08 · Built from: CMS Provider Data Catalog · HHS OIG Exclusions List (LEIE) · Public consumer review signals (audited, never trusted, in the composite Consumer Z Score™) · Proprietary Consumer Z Score™ methodology · Updated: August 2026
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