Best nursing homes in Cincinnati, OH
These are the 70 CMS-certified nursing homes in Cincinnati, Ohio, ranked best-first by the home’s CMS overall star rating. When two homes tie, we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain assigned by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported by the facility. Nothing on this page is sponsored: no home pays to appear or to rank higher.
Check the certification chip before anything else. Most homes here are certified for both Medicare and Medicaid, but CMS certifies some for only one — and a 5-star home that doesn’t take your programme is not an option, however it ranks. Certification is not a quality measure and we don’t rank on it; we label it, because it decides whether the rest of the row matters to you.
How to read this: a high overall star can be lifted by self-reported quality-measure and payroll-staffing scores, so we surface the inspection rating and any serious citations, fines, abuse flags or ownership changes right on the row. A lower-ranked home with a clean inspection record can be the better fit than a higher-ranked one carrying red flags — open each profile.
- 1Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record776 Old State Route 74-B, Cincinnati, OH
- 2Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record4300 Gleneste-Withamsville Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 3Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record699 East Columbia Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 4Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation8097 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 5Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record6164 Salem Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 6Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record11501 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 7Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record1055 State Route 125, Cincinnati, OH
- 8Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record9840 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 9Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record990 Bayley Place Drive, Cincinnati, OH
- 10Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2140 Pogue Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 11Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation315 Lilienthal Street, Cincinnati, OH
- 12Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record3889 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 13Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record3999 Erie Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 14Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record4400 Glen Este Withamsville Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 15Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record8028 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 16Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations11100 Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, OH
- 17Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation3550 Shaw Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 18Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record1701 Llanfair Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 19Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record3904 North Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 20Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record11230 Pippin Road, Cincinnati, OH
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- 22Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record70 Damon Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 23Medicare & Medicaid certified$28,517 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection12100 Reed Hartman Highway, Cincinnati, OH
- 24Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection7100 Dearwester Drive, Cincinnati, OH
- 25Medicare & Medicaid certified$16,801 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection8700 Moran Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 26Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection779 Glendale Milford Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 27Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$14,528 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2025 Wyoming Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 28Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection7450 Keller Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 29Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$16,801 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection6940 Stiegler Lane, Cincinnati, OH
- 30Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$36,185 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection3875 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 31Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection5501 Verulam, Cincinnati, OH
- 32Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection476 Riddle Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 33Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection6210 Cleves Warsaw Pike, Cincinnati, OH
- 34Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record3464 Springdale Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 35Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record1400 Mallard Cove Drive, Cincinnati, OH
- 36Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation3210 West Fork Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 37Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation7777 Cooper Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 38Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record440 Lafayette Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 39Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citationSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2222 Springdale Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 40Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection625 Probasco Street, Cincinnati, OH
- 41Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citationSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3995 Cottingham Drive, Cincinnati, OH
- 42Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citationsSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection1346 Lincoln Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 43Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citationSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection6900 Beechmont Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 44Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection7800 Jandaracres Drive, Cincinnati, OH
- 45Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$17,345 in federal fines4900 Babson Place, Cincinnati, OH
- 46Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record7010 Rowan Hill Drive, Cincinnati, OH
- 47Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citationsSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection11760 Pellston Court, Cincinnati, OH
- 48Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$16,801 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection4320 Bridgetown Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 49Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$10,039 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2250 Banning Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 50Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$44,730 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection11784 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 51Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$110,468 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection8000 Evergreen Ridge Drive, Cincinnati, OH
- 52Medicare & Medicaid certified$15,887 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection6922 Ohio Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 53Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citationSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection1960 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 54Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection7025 Clovernook Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 55Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$159,338 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection2586 Lafeuille Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 56Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection3536 Washington Ave, Cincinnati, OH
- 57Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$100,887 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection6969 Glenmeadow Lane, Cincinnati, OH
- 58Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citationSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection1500 Sherman Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 59Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$21,645 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection1171 Towne Street, Cincinnati, OH
- 60Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$112,473 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection8139 Beechmont Ave, Cincinnati, OH
- 61Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection4900 Cooper Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 62Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection5999 Bender Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 63Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2171 Harrison Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 64Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection7220 Pippin Rd, Cincinnati, OH
- 65Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations8440 Livingston Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 66Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)7 serious citations$190,966 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection4001 Rosslyn Drive, Cincinnati, OH
- 67Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)Abuse icon2 immediate-jeopardy citations$147,294 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3627 Harvey Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
- 68Medicare & Medicaid certified$16,801 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2950 West Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH
- 69Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection5970 Kenwood Road, Cincinnati, OH
- 70Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection8211 Weller Road, Cincinnati, OH
Keep looking: read the Ohio state guides — nursing homes and assisted living — for how the state’s system works, find the closest homes to your ZIP or location, filter every facility by rating, cost and inspection record, or compare any of these side by side. Or see assisted living in Cincinnati, OH. Back to every Ohio city.
How we rank
We order this list strictly by each home’s CMS overall star rating — the government’s own rating, not a score of our own. When two homes carry the same overall rating we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain scored by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported — and then alphabetically. Homes with no rating on file sink to the bottom.
We should be straight with you about a tension here. The CMS overall star is a blend of three domains, and elsewhere on this site we argue that blend can be misleading: the staffing and quality-measure components lean on data facilities report about themselves, and they can lift a home’s overall star above what inspectors actually found. We still sort by it, for one reason — it is the only ranking of nursing homes the government publishes, and the alternative is us deciding which domain ought to count, which is our opinion dressed up as an official rating. We won’t do that. (It is the same reason we refuse to rank assisted living at all.) So instead of quietly re-sorting to our taste, we un-blend the star on every row: the inspection rating sits next to the overall one, and serious citations, fines and abuse flags are on the row too. Where the two disagree, trust the inspection record and the citations — and treat our sort order as the government’s claim, not ours. See our methodology.
No home pays to appear here or to rank higher. There is no sponsored placement, no paid listing, and no referral fee. The page carries ordinary Google display advertising, sold against the page by Google: it cannot move a home up or down this list, and no advertiser sees who you are. The ratings, citations and fines are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens.
Common questions
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Ratings and citations are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens. The absence of a citation does not guarantee the absence of problems. Always verify with the facility and your state Long-Term Care Ombudsman.