Continuing-Care Retirement Community Oberlin, Ohio
Kendal at Oberlin is a nonprofit life-plan community in northeast Ohio, next to Oberlin College, open since 1993. Its residents come from 39 states, which is unusual and mostly explained by the college: music, art and lifelong learning are the reason many people move here.
Care runs from independent living through assisted living, memory support, short-term rehabilitation and long-term nursing care, all on one 110-acre campus with walking trails and an arboretum.
The community is resident-led in a real sense, with an active Residents Association, and the wellness and fitness center anchors day-to-day life. The Kendal organizations grew out of Quaker practice, which shows in the emphasis on self-governance.
The office is open Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. There is a waitlist, managed through the community's portal, and a roadmap-to-residency program for people planning ahead. Pricing is not published.
Recognized as a 'Leader' in the Human Rights Campaign Long-Term Care Equality Index for LGBTQIA+-inclusive policies and practices.
A policy benchmark scored by HRC in a given year; not a care-quality rating.
SourceWe don't yet have documented couples or chosen-family policy details for this organization. Ask them directly, and let us know what you learn.
No trans-inclusive care documentation is on file yet. This does not indicate exclusion, ask the provider about their specific practices.
No LGBTQIA+ aging staff-training credential is on file for this organization. That is not evidence of exclusion, so ask them directly what training their staff receive.
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Office hours. Care staff are on site around the clock in the health center.
Hours last confirmed August 6, 2026. Holiday and seasonal hours can differ, so please confirm before visiting.
600 Kendal Drive
Oberlin, Ohio
Serves Oberlin, OH
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This provider is a Medicare certified nursing home, which means federal and state inspectors visit it and publish what they find. It has 5 certified beds.
Kendal at Oberlin is a continuing-care community. This record covers its Medicare-certified skilled nursing beds, not its independent living or assisted living.
Built mainly from the health inspection rating, then adjusted by staffing and quality measures.
Based on what state inspectors found on their last three annual visits and any complaint investigations. The only one of the four measured entirely by an outsider.
Nursing hours per resident per day, drawn from payroll records rather than self-report, and adjusted for how much care the residents need.
Clinical outcomes the home reports itself, such as falls, pressure sores and hospital readmissions.
Medicare withholds a rating where there are too few residents to calculate one reliably, which is common in small hospital and continuing-care units. A missing rating is not a poor one.
These ratings do not measure affirming care. Nothing an inspector checks asks whether staff will use your name, treat your partner as your partner, or respect a trans resident's body and history. A five-star home can get all of that wrong, and a home that has trained every member of staff can still be short of nurses. Read the two together, and ask about the second one yourself.
Source: CMS Care Compare provider data, July 29, 2026. CMS certification number 365956. Ratings and citations change between inspections, so check Care Compare for the current record before you decide.
In Ohio, nursing homes are licensed by the Ohio Department of Health. Its public register is the place to confirm this provider holds a current licence and to read whatever inspection history the state publishes.
The Quality Navigator covers residential care facilities as well, so it is also the place to check the assisted living side of a continuing-care campus.
Search Ohio's Long-Term Care Quality NavigatorWe link the register rather than copying records out of it. State licensing data is published in a different shape in every state, updated on its own schedule, and a stale copy of a licence is worse than no copy.
8 things worth asking before you decide, chosen because the public record does not answer them. A blank means nobody has published the answer, not that the answer is bad.
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Last updated August 6, 2026. Suggest a correction.
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