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Nursing Homes in Ohio

Ohio has 926 licensed nursing homes listed on ElderCareCosts across 1,265 cities. The median estimated cost statewide is $9,186/mo. Pick a city below for local pricing and provider listings, or request a personalized shortlist.

926 licensed nursing homes listed · 912 with CMS star ratings.

Cost of nursing homes in Ohio

Median monthly price, Ohio

$9,186/mo

Modeled range $8,769 – $10,389 how this range is derived

Ohio $9,186 National median $10,205

Median costs for nursing homes versus Ohio and the middle state nationally. The 25th and 75th percentile rows are the modeled range explained on the methodology page; in the national column they are percentiles across state medians. Figures are estimates, not quotes.

Nursing Homes cost comparison (2025)
Nursing HomesOhioNational
25th percentile$8,769/mo$8,951/mo
Median$9,186/mo$10,205/mo
75th percentile$10,389/mo$12,642/mo

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Why is this number different on other websites? Many directories quote a community's "starting at" rent, before care fees. This figure is the state survey median. It is an estimate to plan against, not a quote; ask each provider for its own number in writing. Our methodology →

Ways families typically pay

  • Private pay (savings, income, home equity)
  • Long-term care insurance
  • VA Aid & Attendance for eligible veterans and surviving spouses
  • Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) waivers, where eligible. Rules vary by state

Medicare generally does not cover long-term custodial care. State-specific Medicaid waiver guides are coming soon.

CMS rating distribution in Ohio

CMS overall star ratings for 912 nursing homes in Ohio. We do not re-rank these scores.

CMS star ratings in Ohio
CMS starsProviders
5 stars206
4 stars191
3 stars171
2 stars222
1 star122

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What federal inspectors recorded in Ohio

Ohio has 922 facilities certified by Medicare or Medicaid, as of the CMS penalty file published August 1, 2026. CMS publishes what it fined them, when it stopped paying for new admissions, how many nursing hours they staffed, and what its inspectors wrote up. These are those records counted. A penalty is an enforcement action on a date, not a verdict on the care a resident receives today.

Facilities with a federal penalty

36%329 of 922 (36%)

A civil money penalty, a payment denial, or both, among the penalties CMS recorded between July 17, 2023 and July 29, 2026.

Facilities where CMS stopped paying for new admissions

16%147 of 922 (16%)

A payment denial is CMS refusing to pay for newly admitted Medicare and Medicaid residents until the facility corrects the problem it cited.

Median penalty total, among facilities that were fined

$45,997in fines · 281 facilities

The middle facility's total across every civil money penalty CMS recorded for it in this window, not the amount of a single fine.

Median nurse staffing hours per resident day

3.57hours · 917 facilities

0.11 hours below the national median of 3.68 hours.

Total nurse hours per resident per day from payroll records CMS collects, quarter Q1 2026. Staffing is an input, not an outcome.

Facilities with an inspection citation in the last 12 months

65%603 of 922 (65%)

Counts facilities with at least one deficiency CMS inspectors wrote up in the last 365 days. The most recent one here is dated June 25, 2026. A facility inspected and found compliant records no citation, so this is not a survey date.

These figures cover nursing homes and nothing else on this site. Penalties, payroll staffing and inspection citations in this form are federal records that CMS keeps for Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes. Assisted living, memory care and in-home agencies are licensed by each state under different rules, and the state penalty files we hold are not comparable to these. We would rather show one honest set of numbers than a national-looking figure stitched from regulators that do not measure the same thing.

Every share above is printed with the number of facilities behind it. Where a place has too few facilities for a share to mean anything, we print the count and say so rather than a percentage. How we count, and what we will not count, is in our methodology.

Ohio licensing & regulation

State-by-state licensing agency details and how to check a facility's complaint history for Ohio are coming soon.

Medicaid & local resources in Ohio

Long-Term Care Ombudsman

Ohio Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program helps residents of nursing homes, assisted living, and similar settings in Ohio resolve concerns about care and rights.

Official Ombudsman locator / program page

Source: State LTC Ombudsman.GOV

Medicaid HCBS / LTSS programs

Named programs below are from official state Medicaid agency pages. We list eligibility dollar amounts and wait lists only when a primary source is cited.

  • PASSPORT. Ohio Medicaid HCBS waiver for older adults, operated with Ohio Department of Aging.
Source: State Medicaid program.GOV

Free national starting points. Official sites only; we do not scrape these directories.

Cities in Ohio

Showing the 500 largest of 1,265 tracked cities.

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Counties in Ohio

County pages carry the local Area Agency on Aging, the state Medicaid waiver contacts and, for nursing homes, what federal inspectors recorded. Ordered by how many nursing homes providers each county holds.

All 78 Ohio counties

Nursing Homes providers in Ohio

Sample of licensed nursing homes listed for Ohio. City pages show fuller local inventories.

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Frequently asked questions

How many nursing homes are listed in Ohio?

We currently list 926 licensed nursing homes across Ohio.

Which cities in Ohio have nursing homes listings?

We track 1265 Ohio cities for nursing homes. See the city list on this page for options near you.

Past 60 days in Ohio: 926 added · 5,353 updated. Most recent change Sep 2. Counts come from our ingestion diffs, not confirmed licensing actions.

How to cite this page

Cite this: According to ElderCareCosts' 2026 index, nursing homes in Ohio cost $9,186/month (median).

APA: ElderCareCosts Research. (2026). Nursing Homes in Ohio. ElderCareCosts. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.eldercarecosts.com/nursing-homes/ohio/

Chicago: ElderCareCosts Research. "Nursing Homes in Ohio." ElderCareCosts. Last modified August 10, 2026. Accessed September 17, 2026. https://www.eldercarecosts.com/nursing-homes/ohio/.

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