Altercare Zanesville

    4200 Harrington Dr, Zanesville, OH 43701
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Welcoming professional clean seamless discharge

    I'm very happy with my stay - the staff treated me like family, nurses, aides, OT/PT and therapy teams were professional and communicative, and the Activity Director and rehab staff kept me engaged. The facility is clean, well-managed, and helped with transportation and home-health setup so my discharge was seamless. Overall a caring, welcoming place I'd recommend.

    Current/former resident
    Jul 2026

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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

    4.21·(130)

    Overall rating

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

      3.7
    • Staff

      4.1
    • Meals

      2.8
    • Amenities

      3.8
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Clean, well-maintained building and grounds
    • Welcoming, home-like atmosphere
    • Engaging activities program (movies, bingo, crafts, theater)
    • Comprehensive rehabilitation services (PT/OT) with positive outcomes
    • Attentive and compassionate aides and nursing staff (by shift)
    • Responsive housekeeping and maintenance for common concerns
    • Range of resident amenities (theater, library, barbershop, transportation)
    • Proactive discharge planning and home-health coordination
    • Frequent therapy scheduling and individualized rehab plans
    • Supportive administrative contacts and informative updates

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and shift-to-shift variability
    • Gaps in communication between clinical staff and families
    • Medication-administration and IV management lapses
    • Inconsistent meal quality, temperature control, and monitoring
    • Sanitation and pest-control concerns in some areas
    • Delayed clinical response and monitoring of acute symptoms
    • Variable staff professionalism and conduct
    • Inadequate incident documentation and family notification processes
    • Billing and insurance-administration issues
    • Facility maintenance inconsistencies in some rooms (curtains, fixtures, HVAC)

    Summary of reviews

    Reviewer feedback on this facility is markedly mixed, with distinct patterns emerging across care, operations, and amenities. Many families and residents praise the physical environment — reviewers frequently describe a clean, well-kept campus with attractive common areas and a welcoming, home-like tone. The facility offers a broad activities program (movies, bingo, crafts, theater) and visible amenities such as a library, barbershop, and transportation support, which multiple reviewers cited as enhancing resident quality of life.

    Rehabilitation services are a consistent strength in the comments. Occupational and physical therapy teams receive repeated positive mentions for expertise, preparation for discharge, and hands-on progress. Several families credited therapy staff with meaningful functional gains. Housekeeping and maintenance are generally viewed positively for common-area cleanliness and responsiveness to issues, although maintenance concerns appear inconsistently in resident rooms.

    Care quality and clinical operations show significant variability. While many reviewers described attentive aides and helpful nurses who provided timely updates and compassionate care, others described delays in clinical response, missed medication or IV administration events, and insufficient monitoring of acute changes. These accounts suggest inconsistent adherence to medication-administration and clinical-monitoring protocols across shifts. A small number of serious, individual allegations — including concerns about incident reporting and a death-related inquiry — were raised and indicate the need for careful follow-up by prospective families.

    Dining and nutrition experiences are also mixed. Some reviewers found meals appropriate and appreciated flexibility for preferences, while others reported cold or poorly prepared meals and inadequate meal monitoring for residents with specific dietary or glycemic needs. Several comments tied mealtime issues to decreased intake and clinical concerns, indicating variability in kitchen processes and meal-service continuity.

    Staff-related dynamics are a central theme. Strengths include a core of dedicated, compassionate staff and therapists who go beyond expectations and cultivate a family-like culture. Weaknesses include variability in professionalism, instances of blunt or dismissive communication, and uneven responsiveness at the front desk or on certain shifts. These differences appear to correlate with staffing levels and shift coverage, implying operational staffing challenges rather than a uniform cultural problem.

    Management and administrative themes include generally good discharge planning and occasional proactive communication, but recurring frustrations with billing, insurance paperwork, and administrative follow-through. Facility-level maintenance issues cited in some room-level reports include missing window coverings, shower hardware problems, and intermittent HVAC issues. Reviewers also raised pest-control and sanitation concerns in specific areas, which merit verification during a visit.

    For prospective residents and families: the facility offers strong rehabilitation programming, varied activities, and several examples of excellent, compassionate caregivers. At the same time, the mixed clinical and operational reports suggest it is important to clarify specific policies during a tour — ask about staffing ratios per shift, medication-administration safeguards, incident-reporting procedures and family notification timelines, kitchen practices for special diets, pest-control logs, and recent survey or inspection history. Speaking directly with the therapy team, nursing leadership, and current family contacts can help assess whether the facility’s strengths align with an individual resident’s clinical and psychosocial needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

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    Altercare Zanesville is located at 4200 Harrington Dr, Zanesville, OH, 43701.

    About Altercare Zanesville

    Altercare Zanesville sits over on Harrington Drive in Zanesville, Ohio, and has been family-run for over 45 years, where a lot of folks come for skilled nursing, rehab therapy, or longer stays when health changes. The place has short-term rehab, long-term nursing care, and a memory care unit with highly protected areas so folks with memory issues don't wander off and get lost. There's a mix of independent living, assisted living, and services for people with Alzheimer's or dementia. Caregivers include qualified nurses, licensed medical practitioners, certified nursing assistants, and physical therapists, with 12-16 hour on-site nursing, 24-hour supervision, a call system, and help with things like bathing, dressing, walking, and medications. They'll also care for those who need non-ambulatory help or closer medical supervision, and folks can move between levels of care inside the building depending on what they need. All staff get ongoing education to help them keep up with best practices, and there's a focus on treating everyone like family with lots of compassion.

    Rooms can be shared or private, with options for 2-bedroom apartments, kitchenettes, private bathrooms, full furnishings, air conditioning, cable TV, phone, and Wi-Fi. The dining room serves restaurant-style meals, and the kitchen can handle special diets for diabetes, food allergies, or other needs, with flexible meal times if you need to eat at different hours. You'll see community spaces like a fitness room, library, arts room, game room, and movie nights, with regular activities including music performances several times a week and outdoor spaces like a courtyard, garden, and walking paths for getting some air or a little exercise. Residents get help with transportation, parking, laundry, housekeeping, and move-in coordination. There are options for outpatient rehab, orthopedic and stroke therapy, physical and occupational therapy, cardiovascular therapy, as well as hospice, palliative, and respite care, plus spiritual care for folks who want it.

    The building has a 24-hour emergency call and security system with trained staff on-site every day, around the clock, and systems to keep people safe if they forget where they are. They'll make sure folks have their medications and mobility support, and families get updated and have help with paperwork and questions. Insurance like Medicare and Medicaid are accepted. Altercare Zanesville has a total of 99 beds, with 7 certified as of June 2025, and a history as a for-profit, family-owned company with no ownership changes in the past year. There's a website where you can see more about the place or find more locations if you want to compare.

    People often ask...

    Altercare Zanesville offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 4200 Harrington Dr, Zanesville, OH 43701.

    No, Altercare Zanesville does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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