What does the Ohio Department of Health license, and what law covers it?

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) licenses Residential Care Facilities (RCFs), the single license type that covers nearly all assisted living and memory care communities in Ohio, along with nursing homes, home health agencies, and hospice. RCF licensing is governed by Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3721 and Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3701-16. Nursing homes fall under a separate rule chapter, OAC 3701-17, so the two license types are not interchangeable.

How can I check whether a Cleveland-area assisted living community is properly licensed?

Use the ODH Licensed Facilities, Services, and Program Search tool to confirm a facility's current license status and review its inspection history. This is the state's own lookup and reflects official licensing and survey records rather than a private review site. The Ohio Department of Aging's Long-Term Care Quality Navigator can supplement this with some consumer-facing information, though it is not a CMS-style star rating.

What does it mean when a Cleveland memory care unit says it has a special care unit disclosure?

Under OAC 3701-16-07(F)(5), a Residential Care Facility that operates a special care unit, as defined in OAC 3701-16-01(LL), must provide a written disclosure covering admission and discharge criteria, staffing, staff training, programming, additional costs, and the unit's physical design. This is a paperwork disclosure requirement, not a state inspection, survey, or certification; Ohio has no separate memory care license or certification comparable to some other states.

Altercare Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center

Skilled nursing and short-term rehab specializing in orthopedic, cardiovascular, and stroke recovery.

Altercare Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center, at 1463 Tallmadge Road in Kent, offers skilled nursing services focused specifically on short-term rehabilitation as well as longer-term care, and specializes in orthopedic rehabilitation, cardiovascular rehabilitation, and rehabilitation following a CVA, or stroke, giving it a clinical focus that is more specialized than a general skilled nursing facility without specific published rehabilitation specialties.

That specialization in orthopedic, cardiovascular, and stroke recovery suggests the facility is particularly geared toward residents who have recently undergone joint replacement or other orthopedic surgery, those recovering from cardiac events or procedures, or stroke survivors requiring intensive, focused rehabilitation therapy following a hospital discharge, rather than serving as a general-purpose long-term skilled nursing facility for residents without a specific rehabilitation need.

Located on Tallmadge Road in Kent, a Portage County city home to Kent State University, southeast of the greater Cleveland metro area, Altercare Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center is part of the broader Altercare network of post-acute care facilities. For families specifically seeking a skilled nursing facility with a clearly defined specialization in orthopedic, cardiovascular, or stroke rehabilitation following a hospital stay, rather than general long-term skilled nursing care, Altercare's published clinical focus areas make it a distinctive option among the skilled nursing facilities profiled in this guide.

Short answer

Altercare Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home provider at 1463 Tallmadge Road, Kent, Ohio 44240, in Portage County.

Location and contact

Community	Altercare Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center
Care type	Nursing Home
Address	1463 Tallmadge Road, Kent, OH 44240
County	Portage County, Ohio
Website	Official site

What we do not publish, and why. We list only details we confirmed against this provider's own published information. We do not publish bed counts, license numbers, pricing or quality ratings for this community because we could not verify them from a primary source. Aggregator sites publish those figures freely; some are wrong, and Austin's sister-site research turned up exactly this problem elsewhere in the network. Confirm licensing yourself using the state tools below, and get pricing in writing directly from the community.

How Ohio regulates this provider type. The Ohio Department of Health licenses and inspects this provider type, and publishes the record free. Read the full explanation →

Current license status and inspection history: ODH Licensed Facilities, Services, and Program Search (verify a facility's current license status)
Consumer-facing quality information: Ohio Department of Aging Long-Term Care Quality Navigator (consumer-facing information on assisted living and nursing homes; not a CMS-style star rating)
To report a concern: Ohio Department of Health, 1-800-342-0553, Live call coverage Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern. Voicemail is available 24 hours a day and is checked twice daily outside live hours.

Evaluating a skilled nursing facility. The questions that actually separate providers of this type. Read the full explanation →

Kent in context

Cleveland proper holds a mix of historic University Circle campuses and West Side communities, and it is where the region's three major hospital systems concentrate discharge planning. Traffic between the East Side and West Side of Cleveland runs through downtown, which matters more for visit frequency than the map distance suggests.

Other nursing home options near Kent

Judson Manor — Cleveland
Eliza Bryant Village — Cleveland
Algart Health Care — Cleveland
O'Neill Healthcare Lakewood — Lakewood
Mount Alverna Village — Parma
The Normandy — Rocky River

Listing details verified 2026-07-21 against the provider's own published information. We are not affiliated with this community and do not represent it. Details change — confirm directly before making a decision.

Altercare Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center

Location and contact

Kent in context

Other nursing home options near Kent

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