What is in the Columbus senior care facility directory?
This directory lists all 116 Ohio Department of Health licensed assisted living communities (Residential Care Facilities) in the seven-county Columbus area, 24 of them registered for Alzheimer's care, with the license record, inspection history and state satisfaction survey results for each.
The assisted living and memory care listings are built from the state's own records rather than operator marketing, so they include every active license, large and small, across all seven counties and 11,344 licensed beds. Independent living, which Ohio does not license, and the skilled nursing communities on our older list stay verified against the operators' own websites.
Browse by care type
Assisted Living
116 ODH-licensed RCFs, every one listed with license and inspection links.
Memory Care
24 RCFs registered for Alzheimer's services on their ODH record.
Independent Living
Communities verified against operators' own websites (independent living is not state-licensed in Ohio).
Featured operators (full profiles)
38 of the largest licensed communities, with every county represented.
- Ashford of Grove City · Grove City, 165 beds
- Bickford of Lancaster · Lancaster, 113 beds
- Bluebird Retirement Community (London) · London, 130 beds
- Bluebird Retirement Community (Marysville) · Marysville, 125 beds
- Brookdale Pinnacle · Grove City, 135 beds
- Carriage Court of Hilliard · Hilliard, 136 beds
- Creekside at the Village · Columbus, 138 beds
- Dublin Assisted Living and Memory Support by Senior Star · Dublin, 165 beds
- Gables of Westerville · Westerville, 150 beds
- Harrison on 5th by Senior Star · Columbus, 180 beds
- Kensington Place · Columbus, 187 beds
- Mayfair Village Retirement Community · Columbus, 172 beds
- Oakleaf Village · Columbus, 206 beds
- Parkside · Reynoldsburg, 150 beds
- Primrose Retirement Community of Lancaster · Lancaster, 136 beds
- Sharonbrooke · Newark, 125 beds
- StoryPoint East Broad · Columbus, 150 beds
- StoryPoint Granville · Granville, 192 beds
- StoryPoint Upper Arlington · Columbus, 162 beds
- The Ashford at Sturbridge · Hilliard, 165 beds
- The Ashford on Broad · Columbus, 165 beds
- The Avalon of Lewis Center · Lewis Center, 150 beds
- The Avalon of New Albany · New Albany, 150 beds
- The Centrum at Willow Brook · Delaware, 131 beds
- The Inn at Bear Trail · Lewis Center, 132 beds
- The Inn at Summit Trail · Reynoldsburg, 146 beds
- The Inn at Walnut Trail · Sunbury, 137 beds
- The Inn at Winchester Trail · Canal Winchester, 145 beds
- The Springs at Wyandot Trail · Lancaster, 118 beds
- The Woodlands at Amber Park · Pickerington, 172 beds
- The Wyngate at Circleville · Circleville, 66 beds
- Traditions at Mill Run · Hilliard, 150 beds
- Walnut Crossing Assisted Living and Memory Care · Marysville, 90 beds
- Wesley Ridge · Reynoldsburg, 135 beds
- Wesley Woods at New Albany · New Albany, 188 beds
- Westerville Danbury · Westerville, 249 beds
- Westerville Senior Living · Westerville, 144 beds
- Willow Brook at Delaware Run · Delaware, 322 beds
Assisted living vs. memory care in Ohio: what each is and isn't
| Assisted living (Ohio RCF) | Memory care in an Ohio RCF | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A Residential Care Facility licensed by the Ohio Department of Health under ORC 3721 and OAC 3701-16, providing housing, supervision, personal care and help with medications. | Dementia care delivered inside an RCF, usually in a secured special care unit, under the same RCF license. |
| What it isn't | A nursing home. Skilled nursing in an RCF is time-limited (generally up to 120 days a year unless the resident, physician and facility sign a written agreement to extend it). | A separate ODH license. Ohio requires a written special care unit policy disclosure before admission (OAC 3701-16-07(F)(5)); only RCFs billing Medicaid's Assisted Living Waiver for memory care must also meet ODA's memory care standards (OAC 173-39-02.16). |
| How to verify it | ODH license record: status, State ID, licensed capacity, first-licensed date. | The ODH services field (Alzheimer's disease) plus the facility's own written special care unit disclosure. |
| Who inspects it | ODH licensure and complaint surveys, published in Ohio's Long-Term Care Consumer Guide. | The same ODH surveys; there is no separate memory care license inspection. |
Where does the facility information come from?
License status, State ID, licensed capacity, operator and first-licensed date come from the Ohio Department of Health; inspection surveys and resident and family satisfaction results come from the Ohio Department of Aging's Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
We do not add star ratings, reviews, amenity lists or prices for individual communities. Where the state has no published satisfaction score for a facility, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Which counties does the directory cover?
Franklin, Delaware, Licking, Fairfield, Pickaway, Madison and Union counties, the seven Central Ohio counties this site serves.
| County | Licensed RCFs | Licensed beds | Alzheimer's registered | 2025-26 resident survey published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin County | 72 | 7,056 | 20 | 41 |
| Delaware County | 15 | 1,851 | 1 | 4 |
| Licking County | 9 | 781 | 2 | 1 |
| Fairfield County | 11 | 941 | 0 | 3 |
| Pickaway County | 2 | 91 | 1 | 0 |
| Madison County | 3 | 286 | 0 | 0 |
| Union County | 4 | 338 | 0 | 1 |
All seven counties share one Area Agency on Aging, the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging (COAAA) (1-800-589-7277), and one regional Long-Term Care Ombudsman office, the Region 6 Long-Term Care Ombudsman run by Easterseals of Central Ohio (1-800-536-5891).
Other communities on our verified list
Skilled nursing, independent living and campus communities whose listings were verified against the operator's own website rather than the RCF registry.
- Arbors West · West Jefferson — Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation
- Brown Memorial Home · Circleville — Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living & Long-Term Care
- Carriage Court of Marysville · Marysville — Assisted Living & Memory Care
- London Health & Rehab Center · London — Skilled Nursing, Rehab, LTC & Memory Care
- Monarch Skilled Nursing and Rehab · Marysville — Assisted Living, LTC, Rehab & Skilled Nursing
- Otterbein Gahanna SeniorLife Neighborhood · Gahanna — Memory Support, Skilled Nursing/Rehab
- Otterbein New Albany SeniorLife Neighborhood · New Albany — Memory Support, Skilled Nursing/Rehab
- Prestige Gardens Rehabilitation and Nursing Center · Marysville — Skilled Nursing, Rehab & LTC
- StoryPoint Pickerington · Pickerington — Independent & Enhanced Living
- StoryPoint Powell · Powell — Independent, Enhanced, Assisted & Memory Care
- The Gables of Marysville · Marysville — Skilled Nursing, Rehab & LTC
- Tuscany Gardens · Pataskala — Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation
Last verified: October 2026.
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