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Senior care near University Circle, Cleveland

Licensed senior care options serving the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio.

Quick answer

University Circle is a neighborhood in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County. Senior care serving it is licensed by the Ohio Department of Health as a Residential Care Facility, with memory care requiring a written special care unit disclosure rather than a separate certification.

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University Circle is Cleveland's museum, hospital and university district, home to Judson Manor, a historic 1920s independent and assisted living community with a Case Western Reserve University lifelong-learning partnership, and close to the Eliza Bryant Village campus on nearby Wade Park Avenue.

Short answer

University Circle is a neighborhood in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Senior care serving University Circle is licensed by the Ohio Department of Health as a Residential Care Facility. Because Cleveland neighborhoods sit close together, families here typically consider communities across several nearby areas rather than only the immediate neighborhood.

How families in University Circle usually search

Neighborhood matters less than families expect, and more than communities admit. It matters less because the city is compact — a community fifteen minutes away is still a community you can visit after work. It matters more because the visits that actually happen are the short ones. The practical test is not the map. It is whether the person who will visit most often will still be visiting in month eight.

For University Circle families, that usually means looking across a band of Cleveland rather than a single neighborhood, and weighing traffic and winter driving conditions at the hour you would actually drive.

What is specific to University Circle

Proximity to Cleveland Clinic's main campus and University Hospitals' flagship campus makes University Circle one of the most medically connected neighborhoods in the region for a resident with ongoing specialist care needs.

Judson Manor's combination of independent living, assisted living and access to on-campus skilled nursing through the Judson Health Center means a resident can often move between levels of care without leaving the broader campus.

Communities serving the University Circle area

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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.

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