Judson Park

Judson Smart Living's Cleveland Heights campus offering independent living, assisted living, and memory care alongside the 5-star-rated Judson Health Center.

Judson Park, at 2181 Ambleside Drive in Cleveland Heights' Ambler Heights/Chestnut Hills neighborhood, is a sister campus to Judson Manor (profiled separately in this guide) within the nonprofit Judson Smart Living network. The community offers independent living, assisted living, and memory care, plus access to the on-site Judson Health Center, which the operator's own site says has been named 'one of the Best Nursing Homes in the Country' by U.S. News & World Report and is rated 5 stars by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Amenities include an indoor heated pool with water exercise classes, a wellness center with certified instructors, an on-site beauty salon and barbershop, art galleries and a working art studio, and a scenic rooftop terrace. Judson Park is pet-friendly and, like Judson Manor, participates in enrichment programming connected to Case Western Reserve University. For families comparing the two Judson campuses, Judson Park's Ambler Heights setting and its on-site 5-star Judson Health Center give it the same full-continuum structure as Judson Manor, under the same nonprofit Judson Smart Living network.

Short answer

Judson Park is an independent living provider at 2181 Ambleside Drive, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106, in Cuyahoga County.

Location and contact

Community	Judson Park
Care type	Independent Living
Address	2181 Ambleside Drive, Cleveland Heights, OH 44106
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What we do not publish, and why.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 We do not publish bed counts, license numbers, pricing or quality ratings for this community because we could not verify them from a primary source.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.

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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.

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Cleveland Heights 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.

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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.

Questions Cleveland families ask

What is adult day care and how does it work in the Cleveland area?

Adult day care provides supervised daytime programming, meals, and social or health-related activities for seniors, typically allowing a family caregiver to work or rest during the day while a parent returns home each evening. Ohio's PASSPORT waiver covers adult day care as one of its supported services, and the 2025 CareScout survey puts the Ohio median cost at $1,798 a month ($83 a day).

How do I know when memory care becomes necessary instead of staying in standard assisted living?

The signal is usually a change in safety risk rather than the diagnosis itself, wandering, exit-seeking behavior, an inability to recognize danger, or care needs a standard RCF isn't staffed or secured to manage safely. Because Ohio doesn't certify memory care separately, the decision comes down to a facility's own assessment against its documented special care unit criteria, part of the OAC 3701-16-07(F)(5) disclosure, rather than a state-defined threshold.

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.

Location and contact

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