What's the difference between independent living and assisted living in Ohio?

Independent living communities are typically unlicensed housing arrangements for seniors who need little to no help with daily activities, offering amenities like meals and social programming without ODH oversight. Assisted living, licensed by ODH as a Residential Care Facility under OAC 3701-16, is built for residents who need hands-on help with activities of daily living, medication assistance, and supervision.

How is memory care different from regular assisted living in Ohio?

Memory care in Ohio is delivered through a special care unit within a licensed Residential Care Facility, requiring a written disclosure under OAC 3701-16-07(F)(5) covering staffing, training, programming, costs, and physical design, but it is not a separate state license or certification. Standard assisted living serves residents with general ADL needs, while a special care unit adds secured environments, dementia-specific staff training, and structured programming tailored to residents with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.

Should I choose in-home care or move my parent to a facility?

The right choice depends on the level and predictability of care needed, home safety, caregiver availability, and cost; in-home care tends to be less expensive for a moderate number of weekly hours, while round-the-clock supervision needs often favor a facility on a cost basis. Safety factors specific to the home, stairs, isolation, lake-effect winter weather cutting off deliveries or visits, should weigh into the decision alongside the financial comparison.

Huntington Woods Care and Rehabilitation Center

An 82-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility that publishes a recurring 'Resident of the Month' feature.

Huntington Woods Care and Rehabilitation Center, at 27705 Westchester Parkway in Westlake, is an 82-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, a defined bed count that gives families a concrete sense of the facility's scale compared to some of the other skilled nursing operations profiled in this guide that do not publish specific capacity figures.

As a dedicated rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility rather than a residential assisted living or independent living community, Huntington Woods is more likely to serve residents on a short-term basis following a hospital stay, surgery, or acute illness, in addition to any longer-term skilled nursing residents, which is a different use case than the assisted living and memory care communities that make up most of this guide.

The facility publishes a recurring 'Resident of the Month' feature, a small but recurring piece of published resident-recognition content that suggests an ongoing effort toward community-building and public engagement with current residents and their families. Located on Westchester Parkway in Westlake, Huntington Woods sits in the same general western Cuyahoga County suburb as VITALIA Westlake and Brookdale Westlake Village, giving families in this part of the county a skilled nursing and rehabilitation option to consider alongside the area's assisted living and memory care communities.

Short answer

Huntington Woods Care and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home provider at 27705 Westchester Parkway, Westlake, Ohio 44145, in Cuyahoga County.

Location and contact

Community	Huntington Woods Care and Rehabilitation Center
Care type	Nursing Home
Address	27705 Westchester Parkway, Westlake, OH 44145
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

As a skilled nursing facility, this provider is licensed by the Ohio Department of Health under a separate rule chapter (OAC 3701-17) from assisted living, and, if Medicare or Medicaid certified, is also surveyed federally and rated on CMS Care Compare. Both the state inspection history and the federal rating are worth pulling.

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 a skilled nursing facility

Pull both records: the Ohio Department of Health survey history and the CMS Care Compare rating. They surface different things, and the payroll-based staffing data on Care Compare is the more reliable signal.
Ask whether the stay is expected to be short-term rehabilitation or long-term care, and what happens when Medicare coverage for rehabilitation ends.
Ask about therapy intensity and who provides it, since post-acute outcomes track closely with it.

Westlake in context

Westlake sits at the western edge of Cuyahoga County bordering Lorain County, part of the same lakefront corridor as Lakewood and Rocky River, and within reach of both Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth's western facilities.

Other nursing home options near Westlake

Judson Manor — Cleveland
Eliza Bryant Village — Cleveland
Algart Health Care — Cleveland
O'Neill Healthcare Lakewood — Lakewood
Mount Alverna Village — Parma
The Normandy — Rocky River

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.