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SouthWest Commons

Assisted Living in Strongsville, Ohio — Cuyahoga County

Quick answer

SouthWest Commons is an assisted living provider located at 18090 Pearl Road, Strongsville, Ohio 44136, in Cuyahoga County.

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New Perspective's ODA-certified assisted living community accepting MyCare Ohio, with shuttle service to a 10-acre arboretum.

SouthWest Commons, operated by New Perspective at 18090 Pearl Road in Strongsville, is an assisted living community certified by the Ohio Department of Aging and one that accepts MyCare Ohio, following the same payer-acceptance pattern found at its sister New Perspective communities, Haven at Lakewood and Beachwood Commons, elsewhere in this guide.

A distinguishing amenity at SouthWest Commons is a shuttle service that takes residents to a 10-acre arboretum as well as to the Freedom Trail veterans memorial, giving residents organized outings to specific local destinations beyond the more generic outings that many assisted living communities offer.

Located on Pearl Road in Strongsville, a southwestern Cuyahoga County suburb, SouthWest Commons sits among several other senior living communities profiled in this guide serving the same general area, including VITALIA Strongsville, StoryPoint Strongsville, and Altenheim Senior Living. For families specifically interested in an ODA-certified, MyCare Ohio-accepting assisted living community with organized outings to a nearby arboretum and veterans memorial via dedicated shuttle service, SouthWest Commons offers a combination of payer flexibility and structured community outings that differentiates it from some of the private-pay-only assisted living options elsewhere in the Strongsville area. Families interested in the arboretum and veterans memorial outings should confirm current shuttle scheduling directly with the community, since outing frequency and destinations can vary by season.

Short answer

SouthWest Commons is an assisted living provider at 18090 Pearl Road, Strongsville, Ohio 44136, in Cuyahoga County.

Location and contact

CommunitySouthWest Commons
Care typeAssisted Living
Address18090 Pearl Road, Strongsville, OH 44136
CountyCuyahoga County, Ohio
WebsiteOfficial 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What we do not publish, and why.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 We do not publish bed counts, license numbers, pricing or quality ratings for this community because we could not verify them from a primary source.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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Strongsville in context

Strongsville anchors the I-71 corridor in southwestern Cuyahoga County. It has a growing supply of newer-build assisted living and memory care relative to some of the older East Side stock.

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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 actually happens during a state inspection of an assisted living facility in Ohio?

ODH surveyors conduct on-site inspections of licensed RCFs to check compliance with OAC 3701-16, reviewing records, observing care delivery, interviewing staff and residents, and checking the physical plant. Inspection findings and any resulting citations become part of the facility's licensing record, which families can review through the ODH Licensed Facilities, Services, and Program Search tool.

Are there minimum staffing rules for assisted living facilities in Ohio?

Staffing requirements are built into OAC 3701-16 and require facilities to maintain staff sufficient to meet residents' scheduled and unscheduled needs, though Ohio does not publish a single fixed resident-to-staff ratio for RCFs. Facilities must also ensure staff have training appropriate to residents' needs, including additional training obligations for staff working in a disclosed special care (memory care) unit.

Can a Cleveland assisted living resident get skilled nursing care without moving to a nursing home?

Yes, but only in a limited way. RCFs may provide skilled nursing services such as dressing changes, therapeutic diet supervision, and medication administration by licensed staff, capped at 120 days in any 12-month period under OAC 3701-16-02(D), unless the facility, resident, and physician agree in writing to extend it. Residents needing more than 8 hours a day of skilled nursing, ventilator support, or care for advanced pressure ulcers exceed what an RCF is licensed to provide.

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