Healthcare Center
7600 S Ridge Rd
Madison, OH 44057
Skilled Nursing Facility in Madison, OH
There’s no place like home, and we hope you’ll consider Madison Health Care your home away from home. Our accommodating community offers private rehabilitation suites and skilled nursing services to address a variety of medical complexities.
Located just off the coast of Lake Erie, Madison has access to Downtown Madison Village, Lake Health Emergency Rooms, and Powderhorn Golf Course. Our 125-bed facility boasts long-term care and skilled nursing capabilities as well as memory and behavioral care. Madison has seven private suites and semi-private, triple, and quad rooms.
Our care team works diligently to ensure all our residents feel healthy, happy, and productive. We have a busy activities calendar and a full recreation schedule, including shopping outings and movie theater visits.
Schedule a tour of the facility to view the personalized care and amenities offered. Additionally, you’ll meet with various staff members and specialists to get answers to all the questions you have.
Skilled Nursing
Dedicated to providing skilled nursing services, our facility is equipped to support your short-term recovery following an injury or illness. Our staff is available to assist you with various needs, including wound care and physical rehabilitation.
Skilled Nursing Services Include:
- Physical, speech, and occupational therapies
- IV therapy
- Trachea care
- Pain management
- Hospice services
- Audiology and dental services
- Restorative nursing care
- Psychiatric/psychological services
Long-Term Care
Should you need long-term care services, our goal is for you to experience comfort and hospitality throughout your stay. Our inviting décor creates a cozy and charming ambiance, and we encourage our residents to personalize their space with items from home.
Our Long-Term Care Services Include:
- Wound care
- Diabetic care
- Orthopedic care
- Transport services
- Dietary and nutritional services
- Enteral nutrition
- Beauty/barbershop services
- Oxygen therapy
- Stroke services
- Catheter/Foley catheter care
Empower Memory Care at Embassy
Embassy’s Empower Memory Care Program is a Holistic program from admission to discharge with an interdisciplinary team approach, including supporting our patient and their family’s psychosocial needs as well as managing their medical needs.
Pulmonary Care at Embassy Healthcare
At Embassy Healthcare, we understand having a Pulmonary Unit with a dedicated staff can drastically reduce rehospitalization, allow for a faster recovery, and foster a better quality of life for our patients and residents. Our Pulmonary Care Program, EMPOWER PULMONARY, strives to help our short-term and long-term residents with diagnoses of COPD, pneumonia, asthma, or respiratory failure re-establish their highest functioning pulmonary status.
Wound Care
Embassy's Wound Care Program is led by Dr. Marc Berkowitz
Dr. Marc A. Berkowitz started practicing Podiatric Medicine and Surgery in the greater Cleveland area in 2007. Dr. Berkowitz has special interests in Wound Care, Reconstructive Foot Surgery, Sports Medicine and Diabetic Foot Care. Dr. Berkowitz graduated from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine in 2004 where he served as an adjunct clinical faculty member. He completed a three year surgical foot and ankle residency at University Hospitals Health System/Richmond Heights where he served as a clinical attending. During his post-graduate residency, Dr. Berkowitz received specialized training in Pediatric Lower Extremity Surgery in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Berkowitz currently owns and operates Wound Care Consultants LLC, a multi-specialty company composed of physicians and nurse practitioners that render conservative and invasive care to patients residing in post-acute type facilities. Dr. Berkowitz is double American Board Certified in Podiatric Medicine and Wound Healing.
What is Wound Care?
What is the Wound care program?
The wound program would be more of a preventive program to start. Reviewing new admissions/ being proactive with current residents in identifying nutrition and surface selection for the residents. Weekly rounds and communication between the facility and the wound provider. Weekly and monthly outcome tracking.
Why is it a good program?
Our wound program is good because we focus on being proactive with new and current residents to help reduce the chances of new wounds to develop. When wound care is needed the physicians look at the entire care of the residents and address them holistically with the IDT.
What are the benefits of the program?
Staff and resident education by the provider. 7 day provider available to assist with complex wounds on admission/ skin sweeps. Advance skin substitutes for wound healing.
Who are the providers?
Please see the list of physicians in the accordion below. Click on a physician’s name and title to read their biography.
Embassy’s Fantastic Providers
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Kenneth Arsham, M.D.
Kenneth Arsham M.D was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his medical degree at Georgetown University, in Washington D.C in 1979 and completed a General Surgery residency and Plastic Surgery fellowship at University Hospitals of Cleveland.
Dr. Arsham received specialized training in Laser surgery in the 1980’s and taught nationally. Wound Care was always part of his practice and after further wound training from Healogics in 2009. He became actively involved in the South Pointe Wound Care Center. Also, he speaks nationally on wound healing on behalf of Smith-Nephew. He has served as a wound care provider for Wound Care Consultants, LLC since 2019.
Dr. Arsham is the past chief of the Department of Surgery at South Pointe Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic Hospital and has been the chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery since 1990. He has been certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery since 1987.
Rachel Askew, FNP-BC, WCC, Nurse Practitioner
Rachel Askew, FNP-BC, WCC, is a Family Nurse Practitioner who specializes in wound and ostomy care with Dr. Marc Berkowitz at Wound Care Consultants, LLC. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the Ohio University in Athens, and then earned her Master of Science degree at Kaplan University in Chicago, Illinois. She holds her national board certification with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Rachel has more than 15 years of nursing experience in acute, subacute, and outpatient care settings. Rachel has a passion for wound care, healing hands, is a member and board certified in wound care through the National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy (NAWCO).
Shari Villafane, Nurse Practitioner
Shari Villafane, a board-certified nurse practitioner, has lived in the Cleveland area for thirteen years. She graduated with her master’s degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2018 from Chamberlain University. Shari’s clinical rotations were spent in a family practice, a pediatrics’ office, and in an urgent care. Shari has been practicing Urology for two and a half years. Shari has more than ten years of experience in the medical field. Prior to urology, Shari worked in Women’s health for 4 years as nurse and sent the time as a member of the research team. Shari also spent time as a nurse in the float pool.
