Ohio Living and McGregor PACE executives joined community leaders and members May 8 to commemorate the start of their new partnership with a groundbreaking-style event at Ohio Living Rockynol. Over the next few months, existing space on the first floor of the western building at the Ohio Living Rockynol campus will be converted to house the new collaboration, McGregor PACE at Ohio Living Rockynol.
Once open, McGregor PACE at Ohio Living Rockynol will provide coordinated, comprehensive medical and social services for up to 400 older adults in the Summit County area. Services will include primary care; physical, occupational and speech therapy; social work and prescription updates and adjustments. More than 30 jobs will be created to support the center’s operation.
To be eligible for PACE, an individual must meet a nursing home level of care as determined by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, be 55 years or older and live in an approved county. Prior to this collaboration, services were only available in Cuyahoga County.
The center’s redevelopment is anticipated to wrap in late 2024 and will utilize 5.9 million dollars of American Rescue Plan funds to complete.
"This innovative collaboration with McGregor PACE is designed to provide extra support for older adults who want to age in place at home and may not have the resources to do so,” said Ohio Living CEO Laurence Gumina. “We are passionate about facilitating high-quality, cost-effective solutions for our aging population, and anticipate the difference McGregor PACE at Ohio Living Rockynol will make in our community.”
About Ohio Living
Now celebrating a century of growth, Ohio Living is one of the largest and most experienced not-for-profit, multi-site senior living organizations. With 11 life plan communities (including independent living, assisted living, skilled rehabilitation, memory care and long-term nursing), Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice, and Palliative Medicine, our total service area covers over 10 million Ohioans wherever they call home. Additional service lines include provider-owned physician and nurse practitioner services, a Medicare Advantage plan, and pharmacy services. Ohio Living Foundation raises several million dollars annually to support charity care, special programs, capital expansion, and endowment.
About McGregor PACE
As part of McGregor, a mission-driven, non-profit senior care organization, McGregor PACE provides aging services that address the medical, rehabilitative, social, and personal care needs of older adults in the Cleveland area. Using a community-based approach, PACE provides the extra support that some adults need to continue to live at home independently in familiar surroundings.