Agency hosting feedback forums on assisted living facilities

BOWLING GREEN — The Ohio Department of Aging will host assisted living feedback forums across the state in August and September.

The forums will solicit opinions from assisted living residents and their loved ones, as well as facility staff and administrators.

A forum will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Wood County Senior Center, 140 S. Grove St.

These forums will be similar in setup to listening sessions that ran as part of the Governor’s Nursing Quality & Accountability Task Force. The May, 2023, report laid the foundation for the governor and General Assembly to pass a package of historic nursing home investments and policy reforms as part of the state operating budget, according to the Ohio Department of Aging.

The report included a recommendation to develop a public dashboard with detailed data and information on nursing home quality. That dashboard became the Nursing Home Quality Navigator, and the “Version 2.0” of the navigator will include assisted living facilities.

Visit aging.ohio.gov to register for the forum.