Editorial standards

How does Dayton Senior Advisor source its facts?

Every rule we describe is tied to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3721, Administrative Code Chapter 3701-16 or the agency page it came from, and every number traces to one named publication: CareScout's 2025 Ohio cost survey, Ohio Medicaid's MEPL letters for 2026 eligibility figures, the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates and the VA's current pension tables.

These are the documents we work from:

• Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3701-16 (Residential Care Facilities)
• OAC 3701-16-05, RCF staffing and personnel
• Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3721
• ODH EID Facility Listing by County (license rosters)
• Ohio Long-Term Care Quality Navigator (Ohio Department of Aging)
• CMS Care Compare Provider Information
• CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey (Ohio medians)
• Ohio Medicaid MEPL No. 191 (2026 COLA figures)
• PASSPORT waiver (Ohio Department of Aging)
• Assisted Living Waiver (Ohio Department of Aging)
• VA Veterans Pension rates
• Ohio Regional Ombudsman Contact Map
• Montgomery County Adult Protective Services
• U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates

What does Dayton Senior Advisor refuse to publish?

Anything we cannot trace back to a primary record: invented averages, facility claims that are not in state or CMS data, testimonials, star ratings of our own making and reviews.

• No Dayton or Miami Valley price median; the only published Ohio cost figures are statewide.
• No memory care price median; CareScout does not survey one.
• No grade or ranking for assisted living buildings; we show the state's citations and survey scores instead.
• No amenities or prices lifted from operator marketing.

When is the Greater Dayton directory rebuilt?

Each rebuild pulls ODH's current EID roster and license detail (the version on the site was retrieved November 6, 2026), the Ohio Department of Aging's inspection listings and survey reports, and the CMS nursing home file dated October 1, 2026.

Listing pages print their data date in the source line. The sitemap's last-modified date for a page moves only when that page's text actually changes, not on every rebuild.

How do star ratings, citations and survey scores appear on the site?

Nursing home stars are shown only where CMS publishes them, citation counts are added up from the Ohio Department of Aging's inspection listings, and resident satisfaction scores are copied from the state survey report, each with its source and date.

When a facility page says a building has more citations than the six-county median, or staffs above it, that is simple arithmetic on the published figures, and the page names the comparison group.

How are mistakes fixed?

Write to advisors@daytonsenioradvisor.com with the page address and what needs changing. We fix display errors ourselves; a wrong license field or CMS figure has to be corrected at its source, and we will tell you which agency to contact.

When a benefit amount or rule changes, we check the new figure in the agency's own document first, update the reference page that owns it, and then every guide that quotes it.