VITALIA Strongsville

Named a 2026 U.S. News 'Best Memory Care' community; in-house restaurant 'Finley's.'

VITALIA Strongsville, at 21452 Royalton Road, offers assisted living and memory care and was named a 2026 U.S. News & World Report 'Best Memory Care' community, an independent, third-party recognition specific to its memory care programming rather than its assisted living services generally.

Consistent with the branding pattern found across other VITALIA communities in this guide, VITALIA Strongsville operates its own named on-site restaurant, called 'Finley's,' distinct from the Kingston's Restaurant at VITALIA North Olmsted, the Dover Restaurant at VITALIA Westlake, and the other uniquely named dining venues at VITALIA's remaining Cleveland-area locations.

Located on Royalton Road in Strongsville, a southwestern Cuyahoga County suburb, VITALIA Strongsville sits among several other senior living options in this guide serving the same general area, including SouthWest Commons, StoryPoint Strongsville, and Altenheim Senior Living. For families specifically prioritizing memory care with independent, third-party quality recognition, VITALIA Strongsville's 2026 U.S. News 'Best Memory Care' distinction is among the more specific, externally validated credentials found in this guide, and is a relevant point of comparison against nearby memory care options in the Strongsville and greater southwestern Cuyahoga County area that may not carry an equivalent named recognition. Families should note that award recognitions like this one typically reflect data and criteria specific to the year they were granted, and are worth reconfirming as current when comparing multiple recognized memory care options.

Short answer

VITALIA Strongsville is an assisted living provider at 21452 Royalton Road, Strongsville, Ohio 44149, in Cuyahoga County.

Location and contact

Community	VITALIA Strongsville
Care type	Assisted Living
Address	21452 Royalton Road, Strongsville, OH 44149
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What we do not publish, and why.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 We do not publish bed counts, license numbers, pricing or quality ratings for this community because we could not verify them from a primary source.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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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.

Other assisted living options near Strongsville

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.

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

Strongsville in context

Other assisted living options near Strongsville

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