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.

Anna Maria of Aurora | Assisted Living in Aurora, OH

Named Ohio's #1 Nursing Home on Newsweek's 2025 'Best Nursing Homes' list; family-owned across three generations for 60-plus years.

Anna Maria of Aurora, at 889 North Aurora Road, offers assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, and short-term rehabilitation, and has been family-owned across three generations for more than 60 years, giving it one of the longest continuously family-owned operating histories among the facilities profiled in this guide, comparable to Bloom at Rocky River's ownership tenure since 1965.

The community's skilled nursing program was named Ohio's number one nursing home on Newsweek's 2025 'Best Nursing Homes' list, an independent, third-party ranking that places Anna Maria of Aurora's skilled nursing quality above every other nursing home in the state on that particular published list, a notably strong distinguishing credential relative to other skilled nursing operations profiled in this guide.

Located on North Aurora Road in Aurora, a Portage County suburb southeast of Cleveland, Anna Maria of Aurora sits on the same broader campus as The Kensington at Anna Maria, an independent living companion community also profiled in this guide, giving residents and families the option to move between the two closely located properties as care needs change over time. For families specifically prioritizing a skilled nursing facility with Newsweek's top statewide ranking combined with three-generation, 60-plus-year family ownership, Anna Maria of Aurora is among the most distinguished skilled nursing options covered in this entire guide.

Short answer

Anna Maria of Aurora is an assisted living provider at 889 North Aurora Road, Aurora, Ohio 44202, in Portage County.

Location and contact

Community	Anna Maria of Aurora
Care type	Assisted Living
Address	889 North Aurora Road, Aurora, OH 44202
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 an assisted living community. The questions that actually separate providers of this type. Read the full explanation →

Aurora 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 assisted living options near Aurora

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.

Anna Maria of Aurora

Location and contact

Aurora in context

Other assisted living options near Aurora

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