Nursing & Rehabilitation
15028 Old Lincoln Way East
Dalton, OH 44618
The Shady Lawn Community
Shady Lawn Nursing & Rehabilitation is conveniently located off Route 30 in the picturesque community of Dalton, OH. The Shady Lawn campus has an emerging reputation for providing exemplary therapy services with a 5-star quality rating based on supporting functional abilities.
Our facility houses 98 beds in private and semi-private rooms. We also boast an impressive staff who are trained to assist in reducing the anxiety of transitions from home or hospital to a long-term care facility.
We are located near the gateway to the largest Amish settlements in the nation and have access to several community sites nearby, including Dalton Dari-ette and Dutch Kitchen.
Think Shady Lawn!
Skilled Nursing
The staff at Shady Lawn strives to provide our patients with the best care they need to get them up and moving and on their way home. We recently added a brand new, state of the art unit that focuses on your homeward transition. Our Transitional Care Unit is reserved for our short-term and hospice residents.
Our facility provides physical, occupation and speech therapy with a team from Aspen Therapy.
Our other clinical capabilities include:
- Wound Management
- Stroke Post-Acute Recovery Care
- Diabetes Management
- Congestive Heart Failure Post-
- Acute Recovery Care
- Pulmonary Care
- Strength training
- Pain Management
- IV management
- Tracheostomy Management
- Dialysis and peritoneal dialysis
- Nutrition Management
- Psychiatric Services
- Audiology, Dentistry, and Podiatry Services
- Bi-Pap/C-Pap
Long Term Care
We want our residents to consider Shady Lawn their home. You’ll find affordable long-term care options for all community residents at our facility. We’re committed to engaging our residents with enriching activities that maintain their independence. We accept Medicare, Medicaid, most major insurances, and offer long-term private and semi-private suites.
Shady Lawn provides amenities including:
- Daily scheduled activities
- Meals and snacks
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s services
- Salon Services
- An in-house physician
- Appointment transportation
- Round-the-clock nursing care
- Ancillary services
- Housekeeping
- Restorative therapy
Empower Outpatient Therapy
Our experienced therapists work closely with patients to build customized rehabilitation programs tailored to each individual’s needs. Allow us to Empower You Home with assistance with community resources. For more information about our Empower Outpatient Therapy Program, please contact our admissions team today!
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.
