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.

Brookdale Stow | Assisted Living in Stow, OH

Near Routes 8, 271, and 77, minutes from downtown Hudson and Akron.

Brookdale Stow, at 5511 Fishcreek Road, offers assisted living and memory care and is located near the intersection of major regional routes 8, 271, and 77, giving the community relatively convenient highway access for families traveling from various parts of the greater Cleveland and Akron metro areas to visit.

Its Fishcreek Road location places Brookdale Stow just minutes from both downtown Hudson and downtown Akron, two of the more prominent commercial and cultural centers in Summit County, giving residents' families nearby destinations to combine with visits to the community.

As part of the national Brookdale Senior Living network, Brookdale Stow follows that company's standard assisted living and memory care service model, similar to Brookdale Mentor and Brookdale Westlake Village profiled elsewhere in this guide, though each Brookdale location differs in its specific local amenities and surrounding community. Located in Stow, a Summit County suburb positioned between Cleveland and Akron, Brookdale Stow sits near VITALIA Stow, another community in this guide serving the same area, giving families in Summit County a direct comparison between Brookdale's national assisted living and memory care model and VITALIA's Joint Commission-accredited, restaurant-branded alternative just a short distance away. Families cross-shopping Brookdale's various Cleveland-area locations profiled in this guide should weigh each community's specific local amenities and highway access alongside the shared national Brookdale service model when narrowing down options.

Short answer

Brookdale Stow is an assisted living provider at 5511 Fishcreek Road, Stow, Ohio 44224, in Summit County.

Location and contact

Community	Brookdale Stow
Care type	Assisted Living
Address	5511 Fishcreek Road, Stow, OH 44224
County	Summit 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 →

Stow 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 Stow

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.

Brookdale Stow

Location and contact

Stow in context

Other assisted living options near Stow

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