Shadyside Healthcare & Rehabilitation

    60583 OH-7, Shadyside, OH, 43947
    3.4 · 19 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    2.0

    Good staff but inconsistent care

    I've seen compassionate, respectful, and skilled caregivers who gave excellent attention-especially during COVID-but I've also experienced serious lapses: meals often not delivered or barely edible, diet restrictions ignored, trays lost, and some residents not treated right. Given the inconsistency and what seems like inflated ratings, I cannot recommend this facility and feel it needs investigation.

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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

    3.42 · 19 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      3.0
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      1.0
    • Amenities

      3.4
    • Value

      3.4

    Pros

    • Compassionate caregivers
    • Excellent care and attention
    • Exceptional care during COVID
    • Respectful staff
    • Positive resident feedback
    • Skilled long-term and rehabilitative care
    • Perceived strong hands-on staff presence

    Cons

    • Staff mistreatment or residents 'not treated right'
    • Meals not delivered or trays missing
    • Poor food quality ('barely edible')
    • Dietary restrictions not followed
    • Food lost or misplaced
    • Reports of terrible care and neglect
    • Calls for shutdown or formal investigation
    • Suspected rating inflation or manipulated ratings
    • Inconsistent care quality across residents/shifts

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment in the reviews is mixed and polarized: several reviewers strongly praise the staff and clinical care, while other reviewers describe serious deficiencies that raise safety and oversight concerns. Positive comments focus on compassionate, respectful caregivers, skilled long-term and rehabilitative care, and exceptional attention during the COVID period. Negative comments concentrate on dining failures, inconsistent delivery of services, reports of neglect or being mistreated by staff, and allegations that ratings may have been artificially improved.

    Staff and care quality: A clear theme is that staff performance is uneven. Multiple reviews emphasize that caregivers are compassionate, respectful, and attentive — with some reviewers calling the facility the 'best place' for skilled or long-term care and highlighting exceptional care during COVID. At the same time, other reviewers report being 'not treated right' and describe 'terrible care.' This suggests significant variability in staff behavior or in the resident experience depending on unit, shift, or individual caregivers. The presence of both strong praise and strong criticism indicates inconsistent standards or lapses in supervision rather than uniform quality.

    Dining and nutrition: Dining-related failures are a prominent and recurring negative theme. Specific problems include meals or trays not being delivered, food being lost, dietary restrictions not being followed, and the food being described as 'barely edible.' These issues were mentioned repeatedly and present practical and clinical risks — especially when diet restrictions are ignored for medically vulnerable residents. The combination of missed tray deliveries and poor food quality points to operational breakdowns in meal preparation, communication, and redistribution of food to residents.

    Operational and management concerns: Several reviews escalate beyond isolated service complaints to systemic concerns, with at least one calling for a shutdown or formal investigation. Another reviewer mentions 'rating inflation' and notes that the facility's rating 'went up to 3.1,' implying suspicion about the authenticity of reported quality metrics. Together these remarks raise questions about administrative oversight, transparency of performance reporting, and whether corrective actions are consistently taken when problems are reported.

    Patterns and contradictions: The simultaneous presence of strong positive remarks about staff compassion and skilled care and equally strong negative reports about neglect and poor dining indicates a facility with mixed performance. Positive experiences appear genuine and frequent enough to be repeatedly mentioned (compassionate caregivers, respectful staff, skilled long-term care), yet negative reports are severe — involving mistreatment, unmet dietary needs, and missing meals — and would be significant if widespread. This pattern is consistent with inconsistent training, staffing levels that vary by shift, or uneven enforcement of policies.

    What is not well documented: The summaries provide limited detail about the physical facilities, recreational activities, or clinical outcomes beyond 'skilled care' and 'long term care.' Activity programming, cleanliness, therapy services, and specific staffing ratios are not addressed in the supplied reviews, so conclusions in those areas cannot be firmly drawn from this dataset.

    Overall conclusion: The reviews indicate a facility with real strengths in caregiver compassion and certain aspects of clinical and rehabilitative care, particularly recognized during COVID, but also with serious and recurring operational problems — notably in dining services and consistency of resident treatment. The allegations of rating manipulation and calls for investigation amplify concerns about management and oversight. For prospective residents and families, these reviews point to the importance of visiting in person, asking targeted questions about meal/dietary protocols, supervision and staff turnover, incident reporting, and how the facility addresses complaints. For management, the reviews suggest priorities: address meal-service reliability and dietary compliance, standardize staff training and supervision to reduce variability, and increase transparency around quality metrics and complaint resolution.

    Location

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    About Shadyside Healthcare & Rehabilitation

    Shadyside Healthcare & Rehabilitation sits on State Route 7 in Shadyside, Ohio, and it offers a range of care for people who need ongoing help with health or daily living, so you'll find long-term care, short-term rehab, a memory care program for people with Alzheimer's, and hospice and palliative care for those at the end of life, and it operates as part of Certus Healthcare Community, under the larger Zandex company, which also runs other places like Cedar Hill Care Center and Willow Haven Nursing Home. The building's got private and semi-private rooms, furnished spaces with private bathrooms, and you'll see little details like kitchenettes, cable TV, and Wi-Fi/high-speed internet, which folks say make living there a bit easier, and if you need help getting around, there are staff - including medical directors, doctors, dieticians, social workers, and nurse practitioners - who provide both 12-16 hours of skilled nursing care each day and 24-hour on-call support, though the daily hands-on nursing time per resident is below the national average at 0.3 hours. Residents can get help with bathing, dressing, transfers, and all the day-to-day things, and the facility welcomes folks who need non-ambulatory care, meaning you can live there even if you can't walk on your own, and they offer a wide range of therapy - physical, occupational, speech, respiratory, wound care, pulmonary rehab, pain management, and IV therapy - plus daily meals and dining options like restaurant-style food, private dining rooms for family gatherings, and meals for special dietary needs such as allergies and diabetes. Housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, and move-in help come through Zandex's Apartments at Cedar Hill services, and if you want to try something social or just fill the time, there are bus outings, daily group activities, arts and crafts, music programs, group exercise, a library, communal rooms, outdoor paths and courtyards, a garden, a theater, movie nights, a fitness room, an arts room, and a beauty salon with a barbershop, and folks can attend religious services or take part in the Blue Sky Living program that's set up for people with dementia in the Dementia Neighborhood. You get access to transportation and parking so running errands or heading to appointments goes a bit smoother, and there's a focus on letting residents help shape the community since a resident council exists, though there's no family council at the moment. Shadyside Healthcare & Rehabilitation does offer Medicare and Medicaid for payment but isn't a Continuing Care Retirement Community, and it's a for-profit facility with an occupancy rate just under 83 percent, but people should know that it's been flagged for abuse in the last twelve months and currently holds a low overall rating (grade F), with short-term care also graded as D, so it's good to review recent inspection reports and talk with staff before making a final decision.

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