What is adult day care and how does it work in the Cleveland area?

Adult day care provides supervised daytime programming, meals, and social or health-related activities for seniors, typically allowing a family caregiver to work or rest during the day while a parent returns home each evening. Ohio's PASSPORT waiver covers adult day care as one of its supported services, and the 2025 CareScout survey puts the Ohio median cost at $1,798 a month ($83 a day).

How do I know when memory care becomes necessary instead of staying in standard assisted living?

The signal is usually a change in safety risk rather than the diagnosis itself, wandering, exit-seeking behavior, an inability to recognize danger, or care needs a standard RCF isn't staffed or secured to manage safely. Because Ohio doesn't certify memory care separately, the decision comes down to a facility's own assessment against its documented special care unit criteria, part of the OAC 3701-16-07(F)(5) disclosure, rather than a state-defined threshold.

What does the Ohio Department of Health license, and what law covers it?

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) licenses Residential Care Facilities (RCFs), the single license type that covers nearly all assisted living and memory care communities in Ohio, along with nursing homes, home health agencies, and hospice. RCF licensing is governed by Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3721 and Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3701-16. Nursing homes fall under a separate rule chapter, OAC 3701-17, so the two license types are not interchangeable.

Jennings at Brecksville | Independent Living in Brecksville, OH

Catholic nonprofit Jennings' campus with 74 private one- and two-bedroom suites plus respite care, serving Northeast Ohio since 1942.

Jennings at Brecksville, at 8736 Brecksville Road, is operated by Jennings, a Catholic-based nonprofit organization that has served Northeast Ohio seniors since 1942, giving it one of the longer institutional histories among the nonprofit operators profiled in this guide, alongside Eliza Bryant Village and Otterbein North Olmsted.

The community offers independent living and assisted living across 74 private one- and two-bedroom suites, a specific published unit count and configuration that gives families a concrete sense of the community's scale and typical unit layout compared to communities in this guide that do not publish specific suite counts. Respite care is also available for residents needing short-term stays.

Located on Brecksville Road in Brecksville, a southern Cuyahoga County suburb, Jennings at Brecksville reflects its parent organization's long-standing Catholic, nonprofit mission applied to this specific community. For families specifically interested in a faith-based nonprofit operator with a long regional operating history and private one- and two-bedroom suite configurations, Jennings at Brecksville's 74-suite layout and respite care availability are among its most concrete, verifiable details relative to other independent living and assisted living communities profiled elsewhere in this guide's Cuyahoga County listings. Families interested in the nonprofit, faith-based structure of Jennings should also ask about admission criteria and any waitlists for available suites, since demand for well-established nonprofit senior communities in the region can be significant.

Short answer

Jennings at Brecksville is an independent living provider at 8736 Brecksville Road, Brecksville, Ohio 44141, in Cuyahoga County.

Location and contact

Community	Jennings at Brecksville
Care type	Independent Living
Address	8736 Brecksville Road, Brecksville, OH 44141
County	Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Website	Official site

What we do not publish, and why. We list only details we confirmed against this provider's own published information. We do not publish bed counts, license numbers, pricing or quality ratings for this community because we could not verify them from a primary source. Aggregator sites publish those figures freely; some are wrong, and Austin's sister-site research turned up exactly this problem elsewhere in the network. Confirm licensing yourself using the state tools below, and get pricing in writing directly from the community.

How Ohio regulates this provider type. The Ohio Department of Health licenses and inspects this provider type, and publishes the record free. Read the full explanation →

Current license status and inspection history: ODH Licensed Facilities, Services, and Program Search (verify a facility's current license status)
Consumer-facing quality information: Ohio Department of Aging Long-Term Care Quality Navigator (consumer-facing information on assisted living and nursing homes; not a CMS-style star rating)
To report a concern: Ohio Department of Health, 1-800-342-0553, Live call coverage Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern. Voicemail is available 24 hours a day and is checked twice daily outside live hours.

Evaluating an independent living community. The questions that actually separate providers of this type. Read the full explanation →

Brecksville in context

Brecksville borders the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in southern Cuyahoga County, near the Independence and Broadview Heights corridor.

Other independent living options near Brecksville

Judson Manor — Cleveland
Eliza Bryant Village — Cleveland
Saint Luke's Manor — Cleveland
Garrett Square Senior Apartments — Cleveland
O'Neill Healthcare Lakewood — Lakewood
Mount Alverna Village — Parma

Listing details verified 2026-07-21 against the provider's own published information. We are not affiliated with this community and do not represent it. Details change — confirm directly before making a decision.

Jennings at Brecksville

Location and contact

Brecksville in context

Other independent living options near Brecksville

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