Continuing Healthcare at Adams Lane in Zanesville, Ohio Receives Federal Fines, Has Bad Ratings for Standard of Care
Continuing Healthcare at Adams Lane is a 140 bed facility located at 1856 Adams Lane in Zanesville, Ohio. As you can see from our blog, there are at least 3 Continuing Healthcare facilities on our list of the worst nursing homes in Ohio.
This nursing home is also part of the Certus Healthcare chain of nursing homes. The Certus Healthcare chain has an average performance of 2 out of 5 stars, which is substantially below the national average of 3. And its average for staffing is 1.7, which is also substantially below the national average.
The Continuing Healthcare at Adams Lane nursing home has been cited for abusing its residents.
- It received a federal fine of $26,685.00 on July 23, 2025.
- It received a federal fine of $15,593.00 on September 6, 2023.
- It received a very large federal fine of $156,634.00 on February 1, 2023.
This nursing home has an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars, which is much below average.
- It has a health inspection rating of 1 out of 5 stars, which is much below average.
- It has a staffing rating of 2 out of 5 stars, which is below average.
This nursing home's overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars places it in the bottom 20% of all facilities reviewed.
During the period August 2023 through July 2024, this facility had a documented pattern of poor care each and every month and was being closely monitored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The nursing home has paid 8 fines in the last 3 years totaling $510,056.00.
On February 1, 2023, state nursing home surveyors found that Continuing Healthcare at Adams Lane caused immediate jeopardy to its residents. In 9 separate written deficiencies, state surveyors found that the facility caused actual harm to its residents between November 2015 and February of 2023.
The facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect and received severe deficiencies indicating a risk to residents' safety. The facility has rated poor for consistent weekend-to-weekday staffing.
In 2020, 91.3 percent of the days of that year, 334 out of 366 days, were staffed below 2
hours of nurse’s aid time per resident per day. This is well below recommended minimum for safe care.
As we have reported repeatedly on this blog, if a nursing home does not have sufficient staff, they cannot provide care to their residents. They also cannot keep their residents safe. The aids do the bulk of the work in any nursing home. The fact that this nursing home has an insufficient number of aids working, puts all of its residents at risk.
According to consumer complaints, residents are left without accessible call buttons while bedridden. Some residents were left undressed for days at a time. People also complained about an unresponsive staff.
We strongly recommend that anyone who has a loved one at this nursing home move their loved one to a better nursing home. If anyone is considering putting their loved one in this nursing home, we strongly recommend that you consider other options.
If someone you love has been neglected or abuse in a nursing home, please call us at 1
800 OHIO LAW as we would be happy to talk with you and help you in any way that we can.