Nursing home
Ivy Woods Healthcare Center.
2025 Wyoming Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45205 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of Communicare Health (122 facilities) · 99 certified beds
Ivy Woods Healthcare Center. is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Cincinnati, Ohio. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 2/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.17 hours per resident per day, below the Ohio average of 3.72. Its most recent inspection on Oct 5, 2023 cited 17 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $14,528In CMS records: 2 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Ivy Woods Healthcare Center. compares
This facility vs. the Ohio and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Ohio avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.17 | 3.72 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.50 | 0.63 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.87 | 2.14 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 34.6% | 49.8% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 17.0 | 10.2 | 9.5 | above avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
- Every deficiency from the January 17, 2026 inspection was corrected by March 20, 2026
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $14,528, 2 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
What inspectors found at Ivy Woods Healthcare Center.
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2026 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jun 25, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Nov 16, 2023 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Nov 16, 2023 · Full report (PDF) - Actual harm
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Oct 5, 2023 - Potential for harm
Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly
Administration Deficiencies · Oct 5, 2023
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 2025 Wyoming Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45205 - CMS certification #
- 365455
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 99
- Avg residents/day
- 88.7
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1980-04-17
- Chain
- Communicare Health (122 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Communicare Health
Communicare Health operates 122 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Communicare Health facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Kitchen 6 inspections by Cincinnati Health Department since 2023; latest Approved - Minor Violations (July 2026)
Full public records, with dates and sources
Kitchen inspections
The local health department inspects the kitchen that serves residents. Results are in the agency's own words.
Cincinnati Health Department: Ivy Woods Health Care Center
- Jul 9, 2026 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
11 violations
- Cleaning of Plumbing Fixtures. Inspector’s note: Plumbing fixtures are being kept clean and maintained.
- Facilities: Floor covering - mats and duckboards. Inspector’s note: Mats are soiled were not designed to be removable and easily cleanable.
- Nonfood-contact surfaces - cleaning frequency. Inspector’s note: Nonfood-contact surfaces are not cleaned frequently enough.
- Food Storage Containers - Identified with Common Name of Food. Inspector’s note: Working containers of food are not properly labeled.
- Single-Service Articles and Single-Use Articles - Storage. Inspector’s note: Single-service and single-use articles were not stored in the original protective package or were stored by means that did not protect them from contamination. Coffee filters stored exposed on a shelf in the storage area not in the original package.
- X. Chemical - Working Containers - Common Name. Inspector’s note: Working containers of cleaning materials are not labeled.
- VII. Protection from Contamination - Food Contact with Equipment, Utensils, and Linens. Inspector’s note: Food is contacting an unclean surface. ICE MACHINE IS DIRTY. Discard the ice. Clean, and sanitize the ice machine before we use.
- Warewashing equipment: Cleaning Frequency. Inspector’s note: Warewashing equipment components' were not cleaned throughout the day or before use.
- Cleaning- Frequency and Restrictions. Inspector’s note: The physical facilities are not cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean. Floor under the shelves anfloor under the three compartment sink,. Floor under the dish washer. Floor in the all in cooler Floor is dirty throughout the premises.
- Nonfood Contact Surfaces - Cleanability. Inspector’s note: Nonfood-contact surfaces were not designed and constructed to allow easy cleaning and to facilitate maintenance. Shelves in the kitchen in the prep area are not cleanable, rusty .
- In-use utensils - between-use storage. Inspector’s note: In-use utensils are improperly stored. In use ice scoop stored inside a dirty container by the ice machine.
- Feb 6, 2026 (routine / critical control point): Approved - No Violations. No violations listed.
- Apr 25, 2025 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
1 violation
- Backflow Prevention- Air Gap: Water Supply Inlet. Inspector’s note: The air gap between the water supply and flood level rim of a plumbing fixture (or other equipment) does not meet requirements. -Observed the air gap between the water supply and flood level rim of the plumbing fixture attached to the walk-in refrigerator is broken and does not meet requirement. ...
- Feb 13, 2025 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
1 violation
- Wiping cloths - use limitation. Inspector’s note: Wet wiping cloth was not maintained in a sanitizer solution between uses.
- Jul 29, 2024 (routine / critical control point): Approved - No Violations. No violations listed.
Source: the agency's records, inspections since Oct 16, 2023, as of Oct 15, 2026. Critical: Marked critical in the Ohio Uniform Food Safety Code as cited by the city.
Cincinnati Health Department: Ivy Woods Health Care Center
- Nov 21, 2023 (routine / standard inspection): CLOS-NO - No Violations Found. No violations listed.
Source: the agency's records, inspections since Oct 16, 2023, as of Oct 15, 2026. Critical: Marked critical in the Ohio Uniform Food Safety Code as cited by the city.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati. 3.1 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Harrison Pavilion Care Center, Cincinnati. 0.8 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Judson Home Care, Cincinnati. 1.1 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Pharmacy. 0.9 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 45205 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Queen City Dialysis, Cincinnati, 1.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars)
Davita Delhi Dialysis, Cincinnati, 2.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Winton Road Dialysis, Cincinnati, 3.3 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 2 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 13 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 45205.
Heartland Hospice (Cincinnati), office in Cincinnati, 9.2 miles away, straight line
Hospice Of Southwest Ohio, Inc, office in Cincinnati, 12.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of Cincinnati, Inc, office in Cincinnati, 12.6 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- University Of Cincinnati Physicians Company LLC, Cincinnati. 3.5 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively low, wildfire very low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively high, earthquake relatively low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Cincinnati Health Department kitchen inspections | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | No plain statements of services found |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Ivy Woods Healthcare Center. a good nursing home?
CMS gives Ivy Woods Healthcare Center. an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 2/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Ivy Woods Healthcare Center. staffed?
Ivy Woods Healthcare Center. reports 3.17 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Ohio average of 3.72.
Has Ivy Woods Healthcare Center. had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 17 deficiencies.
How many beds does Ivy Woods Healthcare Center. have?
Ivy Woods Healthcare Center. is certified for 99 beds.