How do I actually apply for Medicaid long-term care coverage in Ohio?

Applications go through the Ohio Department of Medicaid at benefits.ohio.gov, or families can contact the Area Agency on Aging serving their county for help with a waiver assessment and to get on any relevant waiting list. Applicants need to meet both the nursing-facility level-of-care clinical standard and the state's non-MAGI financial eligibility rules.

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.

Western Reserve Masonic Community | Independent Living in Medina, OH

Medina County's only CCRC, set on 229 acres of woods and lakes; memory support branded 'Pathways'; 2026 Pinnacle Customer Experience Award.

Western Reserve Masonic Community, operated by Ohio Masonic Communities at 4931 Nettleton Road in Medina, is described as the only continuing care retirement community in Medina County, offering independent living, assisted living, a memory support program branded 'Pathways,' and skilled nursing and rehabilitation, all set across a 229-acre campus of woods and lakes, a scale substantially larger than most other communities profiled in this guide.

That scale gives the campus considerably more natural surroundings, including its own lakes and wooded acreage, than most senior living properties operating on standard suburban lots elsewhere in this guide, and its status as Medina County's only CCRC means residents can move between independent living, assisted living, memory support, and skilled nursing without leaving the same 229-acre campus as their needs change over time.

The community received the 2026 Pinnacle Customer Experience Award, an independent, third-party recognition of resident and family satisfaction. Located in Medina, the county seat southwest of greater Cleveland, Western Reserve Masonic Community's combination of being Medina County's only CCRC, its unusually large 229-acre wooded and lake-filled campus, and its 2026 Pinnacle Customer Experience Award make it a distinctive option for families in the Medina area seeking a full continuum of care in a substantially larger natural setting than typical suburban senior living campuses.

Short answer

Western Reserve Masonic Community is an independent living provider at 4931 Nettleton Road, Medina, Ohio 44256, in Medina County.

Location and contact

Community	Western Reserve Masonic Community
Care type	Independent Living
Address	4931 Nettleton Road, Medina, OH 44256
County	Medina 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 type. The Ohio Department of Health licenses and inspects this provider type, and publishes the record free. Read the full explanation →

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 an independent living community. The questions that actually separate providers of this type. Read the full explanation →

Medina 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.

Other independent living options near Medina

Judson Manor — Cleveland
Eliza Bryant Village — Cleveland
Saint Luke's Manor — Cleveland
Garrett Square Senior Apartments — Cleveland
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.

Western Reserve Masonic Community

Location and contact

Medina in context

Other independent living options near Medina

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