The Dickson Firm, L.L.C. represents nursing home residents and their families in cases against the owners and the operators of nursing homes throughout the State of Ohio.
This article was written by Ohio nursing home attorney, Blake Dickson.
November 1, 2026
The Arbors at Stow Nursing Home is a nursing home located at 2910 L'Ermitage Place in Stow, Ohio.
It is a nursing home with 145 beds, which makes it a relatively large nursing home. According to Medicare, it cares for an average of about 127 residents per day.
This nursing home is owned by ARK OPCO GROUP, LLC, which has owned 100% of it since July 1, 2015. Medicare lists Noble Healthcare Management, LLC and Prestige Administrative Services, LLC as having managerial control of this nursing home.
This nursing home has been cited by Medicare for abusing its residents. It has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, and its health inspection rating is 1 out of 5 stars.
This nursing home was recently issued a federal fine in the amount of $80,350.00 on January 15, 2025.
On January 15, 2025, it received a payment denial by Medicare meaning Medicare refused to reimburse it for the care of its residents.
On January 15, 2025, in response to a complaint, this nursing home was cited for failing to provide its residents with enough fluids to prevent dehydration. Inspectors found that this failure caused actual harm. According to the inspection report, on November 16, 2024, a resident with severe cognitive impairment had an acute change in condition, with slurred and mumbled words, an inability to perform hand grasps, and fixed pupils. The resident was taken to the hospital and admitted with dehydration, elevated sodium, and acute kidney injury that required intravenous fluids. The inspectors found that the failure had the potential to affect thirty-six (36) other residents on two of the nursing home's units. There is really no excuse for a nursing home allowing one of its residents to become so profoundly dehydrated that they required intravenous fluids. Nursing homes are legally obligated to give their residents adequate supervision. It is hard for me to understand how any resident could be receiving adequate supervision and, at the same time, they could allow a resident to become so profoundly dehydrated that they had to be hospitalized. The inspectors found that the failure had the potential to affect 36 other residents on two of the nursing home's units. This means that this was not an issue with a single employee but this was an overall issue with the nursing home that affected multiple units in this large nursing home.
The Nursing Home was issued a federal fine of $47,927.00 on September 24, 2024.
It also received a payment denial by Medicare on September 24, 2024.
On September 24, 2024, in response to a complaint, this nursing home was cited at the level of Immediate Jeopardy, the most serious category of deficiency that inspectors can find, for failing to keep a resident free from significant medication errors. According to the inspection report, the resident had a known history of hypothyroidism and of myxedema coma, a life-threatening condition caused when thyroid hormone levels become very low. The resident's admission order for Synthroid, the medication used to treat hypothyroidism, was not transcribed accurately by the nursing staff, and the resident did not receive Synthroid from September 7, 2023 until April 20, 2024. The resident did not receive a medication that they needed to treat a life-threatening condition for over 7 months. This is not a mistake. This is not an error. This is a pattern of neglect. How is it that no one at this nursing home knew that this resident with a known history of hypothyroidism and of myxedema coma was not receiving their necessary medication? On April 20, 2024, the resident was taken to the hospital with decreased consciousness, weakness, decreased appetite, trouble swallowing, and a heart rate of 46 beats per minute. The resident was admitted to the intensive care unit with acute toxic metabolic encephalopathy, likely myxedema coma, and a thyroid stimulating hormone level of 59.9 (normal is 0.5 to 5). The resident never walked again, developed a pulmonary embolism, and died on July 24, 2024.
Signal Ohio reported that Medicaid paid this nursing home $6.8 million that year.
It was issued a federal fine of $18,233.00 on May 22, 2024.
On May 22, 2024, in response to a complaint, this nursing home was cited for failing to provide adequate supervision to prevent accidents. Inspectors found that this failure caused actual harm. According to the inspection report, on May 14, 2024, a resident who required the assistance of two people for transfers was transferred by one staff member using a Hoyer mechanical lift. The resident suffered a displaced fracture of the right upper arm near the elbow. Any properly trained nursing home employee who provides resident care knows that you always use two people with a Hoyer lift. One person is at the base of the lift and another person is with the resident, helps them into the harness, and monitors them as they're lifted up off the bed and into the wheelchair or off the wheelchair and onto the commode. You never transfer a resident using a Hoyer lift with just one person. It is simply dangerous. If the one staff person is at the base of the hoyer lift, operating it to lift the person up, there's no one with the resident who's in the harness to make sure they don't swing back and forth and the whole lift doesn't tip over. If the one staff person is with the resident in the harness, there's nobody at the base of the hoyer lift making sure it doesn't tip over. This usually happens when the nursing home is understaffed and a resident needs to be transferred but a staff member cannot find someone to help them.
On November 21, 2024, in response to a complaint, this nursing home was cited for failing to provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and to prevent new pressure ulcers from developing. Inspectors found that this failure caused actual harm. According to the inspection report, a cognitively impaired resident who depended on staff for bed mobility developed deep tissue injury pressure ulcers on the left heel and sacrum within thirty days of admission, and reported pain from the pressure ulcers. The inspectors found no evidence of comprehensive skin monitoring or effective interventions to prevent the pressure ulcers.
On March 25, 2026, this nursing home was cited fifteen (15) times. Those citations included failing to protect each resident from abuse, failing to develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse and neglect, failing to timely report suspected abuse and neglect, failing to make sure a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area, and failing to provide a safe, clean and comfortable environment.
In total, Medicare's records show forty-two (42) deficiencies at this nursing home.
According to Medicare, 18.9% of this nursing home's long-stay residents got an antipsychotic medication, compared to an Ohio average of 8.5%, and 42.9% got an antianxiety or hypnotic medication, compared to an Ohio average of 25.5%. Among short-stay residents, 9.1% got an antipsychotic medication for the first time, compared to a national average of 1.5%. Registered nurses spend an average of 31 minutes per resident per day at this nursing home, compared to an Ohio average of 39 minutes. Medicare also reports that 53.4% of its nursing staff and 55% of its registered nurses stopped working there over a twelve-month period, compared to Ohio averages of 49% and 44.4%. This means that more than half of the nursing staff quit at this nursing home over the course of a year.
There are sixteen (16) nursing homes in Ohio known as “Arbors”. Medicare identifies all sixteen of them as part of the same chain, “Arbors at Ohio”. Of these sixteen (16) nursing homes, four (4) of them, including the Arbors at Stow, have been flagged by Medicare because they have been cited for abuse. Seven (7) of these sixteen (16) nursing homes, including the Arbors at Stow, have a 2 out of 5 star rating. The average health inspection rating for the chain is 2.4 out of 5 stars.
In June 2026, Signal Ohio reported that since January 1, 2024, at least eleven (11) plaintiffs have filed lawsuits accusing Arbors nursing homes of negligence or medical errors that caused residents' deaths. Signal Ohio also reported that federal inspections found that poor care at the Arbors at Stow, the Arbors at Milford, and the Arbors at Minerva contributed to residents' deaths, and that Arbors facilities have been fined on eighteen (18) occasions for a total of more than $648,000.00, while Medicaid paid Arbors facilities a total of $233 million over the past three calendar years. The Lucas County Coroner ruled that the July 2024 death of a resident of the Arbors at Oregon was a homicide, caused by a Stage 4 bedsore that resulted from medical neglect.
If someone you love is in a nursing home, and you are not confident that they are receiving appropriate care, it is imperative that you move them to a better nursing home. No amount of family involvement or frequent visiting can make up for a poor nursing home that is improperly staffed or otherwise not providing appropriate care to its residents. We understand that moving an elderly nursing home resident, particularly one that's confused or demented, to another facility can be very traumatic. However, if your resident is not getting appropriate care, then they are at risk, and you must consider moving them to a better nursing home.
We handle cases throughout the State of Ohio. And we see multiple nursing homes that consistently provide improper care. They do not staff their facilities properly. They do not hire qualified people. And their residents are consistently neglected and abused.
If someone you love has been neglected or abused in a nursing home, please call us at 1-800 OHIO LAW. We will be happy to talk with you and help you in any way that we can.
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