Health at Franklin

    423 Mission Ln, Franklin, OH 45005
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    2.56·(36)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.1
    • Staff

      2.5
    • Meals

      1.9
    • Amenities

      2.0
    • Value

      1.2

    Pros

    • Compassionate individual nursing care
    • Strong director-level leadership
    • Welcoming, family-oriented atmosphere
    • Attentive and knowledgeable staff
    • One-floor layout
    • Roomy resident rooms
    • Abundant natural light in common areas
    • Pleasant dining area
    • Effective therapy and rehabilitation services
    • Efficient vendor coordination and operations
    • Clean, well-maintained communal spaces
    • Helpful and professional admissions experience

    Cons

    • Inconsistent medication management and access
    • Delays in responding to call systems
    • Inconsistent sanitation and incontinence-care practices
    • Staffing shortages and scheduling gaps
    • Gaps in clinical oversight and wound-care protocols
    • Limited physician presence and medical oversight
    • Billing transparency and refund-process deficiencies
    • Variable meal quality and limited menu variety
    • Noise management and sleep-disruption issues
    • Maintenance and aging physical plant concerns
    • Discharge-process and continuity-of-care gaps
    • Weak family communication and follow-up practices

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews present a mixed picture of care at this facility, with multiple families describing consistently positive experiences while others raised serious operational concerns. Strengths cited include engaged leadership, a welcoming atmosphere, and individual caregivers who provide compassionate bedside attention. The building layout and many rooms with natural light are seen as favorable for resident comfort, and several accounts highlight successful therapy outcomes, an orderly admissions process, and well-maintained common areas.

    Care quality appears to vary across shifts and cases. Positive accounts emphasize attentive nursing, successful rehabilitation, and helpful therapy staff. Conversely, there are substantive concerns about medication management, delays in clinical updates, inconsistent wound-care practices, and episodes that led to hospitalization. Reviewers referenced concerns following a resident's death and other serious clinical outcomes, indicating a need for assurance about clinical oversight, escalation protocols, and physician availability.

    Staffing and responsiveness are recurring themes. Many reviews praise individual staff members for professionalism and kindness and single out strong director-level leadership. At the same time, other accounts describe staffing shortages, delayed responses to call systems, and inconsistent follow-up with families. These patterns suggest variability in staff coverage and in-the-moment responsiveness rather than uniform performance across the facility.

    Dining and daily-life experiences also show divergence. Some families find the dining area pleasant and report good appetites and competent feeding assistance. Others describe limited menu variety, reliance on prepared or frozen items, and meal-service lapses such as missing beverages or unattended meals. Noise control and sleep disruption—loud televisions and vocalizations—were noted as contributors to disturbed rest for some residents.

    Facility condition observations are similarly mixed. Positive notes include roomy, single-level floorplans and bright common spaces. Negative observations point to maintenance needs in parts of the building and sanitation concerns in specific areas or incidents. Prospective families should inspect resident rooms and common areas in person and ask about ongoing maintenance and housekeeping protocols.

    Management and administrative issues emerge as another important pattern. While some reviewers commend efficient operations and coordinated vendor relationships, others raise serious concerns about billing transparency, delayed refunds, upfront-payment policies, and handling of resident belongings. A formal complaint and requests for state review were mentioned in the material reviewed, indicating that financial and property-handling questions deserve particular scrutiny during any decision-making process.

    Recommendation for prospective families: conduct an unannounced visit, observe multiple shifts if possible, review medication-administration protocols, ask about staffing ratios and on-site physician coverage, inspect cleanliness and maintenance practices, sample or observe a meal service, and obtain clear written terms about payments and refund policies. Request references from current families and ask how the facility documents and communicates incidents, hospital transfers, and end-of-life care. These actions can help clarify whether the facility’s strengths align with a specific resident’s clinical and personal needs and whether identified operational concerns have been addressed.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Health at Franklin is located at 423 Mission Ln, Franklin, OH, 45005.

    About Health at Franklin

    Health at Franklin offers many health and senior living services, bringing together a full range of care under one community, so you can find both medical care and a place to call home, and they've got these different spots like the Franklin Nursing Home, Willow Knoll Retirement Community for assisted living, Sherman Glen Retirement Villa for independent living, the Harding House unit, and even Kensington Place, and if someone needs skilled nursing, there's that too. They provide board and care homes in regular neighborhoods for those who like a home-style feel with just a few other people and caregivers, and there are continuing care retirement communities so seniors can stay as their needs change, living first on their own and later with more help if needed. Services include assisted living, memory care for people with dementia, independent living, skilled nursing, and all sorts of medical help like nursing, rehabilitation, wound care, hospice, palliative care, and physical therapy, while their medical side extends to diabetes care, sleep and respiratory health, women's health, and even clinics for children and behavior health care. There are clinics in several counties, like the Racine Dental Clinic, Pomeroy and McArthur sites in Meigs and Vinton Counties, plus behavioral and primary care clinics around Athens, Gallia, and Hocking Counties, and they run special programs like REACH Cheshire and REACH Youth Day Treatment, as well as services for early childhood and adult respite care and the Athens County WIC Program. They take care in tailoring their programs, helping folks with daily needs, medication, meals, and memory support, and home wellness services are available, alongside diabetes, respiratory, and sleep health checkups. You'll find telehealth, imaging, cardiovascular, breast health, clinics for acute and chronic care, outpatient and inpatient hospital care, nutrition help, sleep center, pulmonology, pharmacy support, clinical lab, small group appointments, and professional support programs for staff including education around Indigenous Cultural Safety and anti-racism, and they keep a practical training program going for pharmacy students. They give guidance on pharmacy procedures, with complaint and investigation processes and policies about pharmacy licensing, registration, closure, and operating changes, while also making sure to focus on safe and respectful care for Indigenous patients. They've got clear ways to talk to staff with an online contact form, accessibility tools, and a customer care line. Health at Franklin belongs to the Creative Solutions in Healthcare network, showing a strong effort to offer respectful and compassionate care, with simple, clear options for seniors and families.

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