COLUMBUS, Ohio — Governor Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Aging announced the launch of a new tool to provide detailed information about nursing homes across the state.
The Ohio Nursing Home Quality Navigator includes a searchable map of all active nursing homes in the state with care quality metrics, facility comparison, and other features, such as staffing ratios, specialty services offered and the number of health and safety violations a nursing home received.
The Navigator allows Ohioans to find nursing homes in their area by searching for their zip code or city name, which then generates results to highlight nursing homes in a range of anywhere from five to 100 miles.
Data available for each facility includes its number of beds, its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Five-Star Quality Rating, resident and family satisfaction survey scores, staffing data, and other information provided by the facility.
“Our task force traveled to every corner of the state, listening to nursing home residents, their family members, friends and caregivers. Time and again, these people told us that the information they needed to make one of the most important decisions of their lives – where to live and receive care – was scattered across a variety of sources,” DeWine said. “We heard loud and clear that Ohioans making these decisions want an accessible, trusted, single source of information about nursing homes available at their fingertips."
For more information about this new tool, click here.