SouthWest Commons

New Perspective's ODA-certified assisted living community accepting MyCare Ohio, with shuttle service to a 10-acre arboretum.

SouthWest Commons, operated by New Perspective at 18090 Pearl Road in Strongsville, is an assisted living community certified by the Ohio Department of Aging and one that accepts MyCare Ohio, following the same payer-acceptance pattern found at its sister New Perspective communities, Haven at Lakewood and Beachwood Commons, elsewhere in this guide.

A distinguishing amenity at SouthWest Commons is a shuttle service that takes residents to a 10-acre arboretum as well as to the Freedom Trail veterans memorial, giving residents organized outings to specific local destinations beyond the more generic outings that many assisted living communities offer.

Located on Pearl Road in Strongsville, a southwestern Cuyahoga County suburb, SouthWest Commons sits among several other senior living communities profiled in this guide serving the same general area, including VITALIA Strongsville, StoryPoint Strongsville, and Altenheim Senior Living. For families specifically interested in an ODA-certified, MyCare Ohio-accepting assisted living community with organized outings to a nearby arboretum and veterans memorial via dedicated shuttle service, SouthWest Commons offers a combination of payer flexibility and structured community outings that differentiates it from some of the private-pay-only assisted living options elsewhere in the Strongsville area. Families interested in the arboretum and veterans memorial outings should confirm current shuttle scheduling directly with the community, since outing frequency and destinations can vary by season.

Short answer

SouthWest Commons is an assisted living provider at 18090 Pearl Road, Strongsville, Ohio 44136, in Cuyahoga County.

Location and contact

Community	SouthWest Commons
Care type	Assisted Living
Address	18090 Pearl Road, Strongsville, OH 44136
County	Cuyahoga 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What we do not publish, and why.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 We do not publish bed counts, license numbers, pricing or quality ratings for this community because we could not verify them from a primary source.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 an assisted living community. The questions that actually separate providers of this type. Read the full explanation →

Strongsville in context

Strongsville anchors the I-71 corridor in southwestern Cuyahoga County. It has a growing supply of newer-build assisted living and memory care relative to some of the older East Side stock.

Other assisted living options near Strongsville

Judson Manor — Cleveland
St. Augustine Towers — Cleveland
Algart Health Care — Cleveland
Haven at Lakewood — Lakewood
O'Neill Healthcare Lakewood — Lakewood
Mount Alverna Village — Parma

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.

Questions Cleveland families ask

What is Medicaid Estate Recovery in Ohio, and can the state take my parent's house?

Ohio's Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (MERP) is a federally required program that recovers certain Medicaid long-term care payments from a deceased recipient's estate, for recipients 55 or older or of any age if permanently institutionalized. Ohio is an "expanded recovery" state, meaning assets passing outside probate, like transfer-on-death deeds or joint survivorship property, can be subject to recovery too. Recovery is delayed while a surviving spouse, minor child, or blind or disabled child lives in the home, and hardship waivers are evaluated case by case.

Does Ohio Medicaid pay for room and board in assisted living?

No. The Assisted Living Waiver pays only for personal care and supportive services delivered by the facility's staff; room and board is the resident's own responsibility, capped at the SSI federal benefit rate minus a $50 personal needs allowance. This is true across Ohio's long-term care Medicaid programs: PASSPORT and MyCare Ohio also do not cover room and board in any residential setting.

How much does assisted living cost in Ohio in 2025?

According to the 2025 CareScout Cost of Care Survey, the Ohio statewide median for an assisted living community is $6,103 a month ($73,230 a year), close to the 2025 national median of $6,200 a month. CareScout does not publish a separate Cleveland or Cuyahoga County figure, so this is a statewide median, not a local one.

Location and contact

Strongsville in context

Other assisted living options near Strongsville

Questions Cleveland families ask

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