Des Moines Senior AdvisorCalvin Community Memory Care, at 4210 Hickman Rd in Des Moines (Polk County), is a dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D) certified by the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing under certificate S0057, with a maximum occupancy of 21 units and a certificate current through August 24, 2027.
Is Calvin Community Memory Care a certified assisted living program in Des Moines, Iowa?
Yes. Calvin Community Memory Care holds a current DIAL certificate as a dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D), sized at 21 units, smaller than the 58-unit midpoint of the 39 dementia-specific programs we track in the six counties.
| Field | From DIAL's records |
|---|---|
| DIAL certificate number | S0057 |
| Program type | Dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D) |
| First certified | August 24, 2003 |
| Current two-year certificate | August 24, 2025 through August 24, 2027 |
| Maximum occupancy | 21 units |
| Voluntary national accreditation | No; DIAL monitors it directly |
| Administrator on the DIAL record | Billy Meyers |
| State fines with exit dates since January 2023 | 0 |
| Months since DIAL's last survey or monitoring | 26.0 (next due September 17, 2026) |
| Phone on the DIAL record | (515) 277-6141 |
Certification in Iowa is tied to one program at one location for two years; the present term opened August 24, 2025. A new owner must notify DIAL before the certificate can transfer, and DIAL may visit within 90 days of a change of ownership.
DIAL dates the first certification to August 24, 2003, about 23 years ago, which places it 15 of 77 by age among the metro's certificates.
How does Iowa regulate dementia care at Calvin Community Memory Care?
Yes. DIAL certifies Calvin Community Memory Care as a dementia-specific assisted living program, Iowa's official category for programs that serve tenants with moderate to severe dementia (Global Deterioration Scale stages 4 to 7) or hold themselves out as providing specialized dementia care.
Dementia-specific programs must keep someone awake and on duty 24 hours a day in the proximate area, train all personnel for at least eight hours in dementia care within their first 30 days, and repeat eight hours of training every year for anyone with direct tenant contact.
The rules require enough trained staff to meet tenants' needs rather than a set ratio; ask to see two recent weeks of night-shift schedules.
The same street address also holds a general assisted living certificate: Calvin Community AL, so a spouse without dementia can often live in the same community.
The full rules are summarized on our dementia-specific program page.
What enforcement history does DIAL show for Calvin Community Memory Care?
We found no state fine for Calvin Community Memory Care in DIAL's Assessed Fines Report covering visits that ended from January 2023 to November 2026.
A clean fines record means no penalty-level findings in that window. Ordinary regulatory insufficiencies are fixed through a written plan of correction that the fines report never shows.
When did Iowa last inspect Calvin Community Memory Care?
About 26 months had passed since DIAL's most recent visit to Calvin Community Memory Care (roughly September 2024) according to the state's Survey Due Report, and the report shows the next visit due by September 17, 2026.
Iowa rules require DIAL to monitor every certified program at least once in each 24-month period (481 IAC 67.10), plus complaint and incident investigations in between. Ask the program for the final report from that visit.
Which certified programs are closest to Calvin Community Memory Care in Des Moines?
The nearest other certified program is StoryPoint Beaverdale in Des Moines, about 0.9 miles away as the crow flies, with 160 units and a dementia-specific certificate.
| Facility | Miles away | Type | Units or beds | State fines since 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StoryPoint Beaverdale 3410 Beaverdale Avenue, 50310 | 0.9 | ALP/D | 160 | 0 |
| Claremont's Ramsey Village 1611 27th St, 50310 | 1.2 | ALP/D | 10 | 0 |
| Rose of Des Moines 1330 19th Street, 50314 | 1.9 | ALP | 104 | 0 |
| 3801 Grand 3801 Grand Ave, 50312 | 2.1 | ALP/D | 106 | 0 |
| Wesley Acres John's Harbor Memory Support AL 3520 Grand Ave., 50312 | 2.2 | ALP/D | 19 | 0 |
How far is Calvin Community Memory Care from a hospital?
Calvin Community Memory Care is in the Beaverdale, Highland Park & the North Side part of Des Moines, and Broadlawns Medical Center is the closest general hospital on DIAL's roster, about 2.4 miles away by straight line.
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center is next, roughly 2.4 miles away. Distances are straight-line measurements between mapped points, not driving times.
If nursing care becomes necessary, the two nearest CMS-certified nursing facilities are Calvin Community (0.0 mi; CMS rating 4 of 5) and Ramsey Village (1.2 mi; CMS rating 2 of 5).
Also licensed at this street address: Calvin Community (nursing facility, license 770368). On a shared campus a tenant can often change levels of care without leaving the community.
What does Calvin Community Memory Care's record suggest asking on a tour?
Use the public record as your checklist: ask to read the latest DIAL monitoring report, the fire safety report and the plan of correction; Iowa rules require the program to share them on request.
- Ask for the occupancy agreement and every attachment; Iowa requires it in plain language and 12-point type, with 30 days' notice before a fee change.
- Ask the program to show you, in writing, its own admission and retention criteria on top of the state's.
- Ask how many staff are awake inside the program overnight and how the written missing-tenant procedure works.
- Before counting on Medicaid, ask whether Elderly Waiver services are delivered here and how room and board would be paid.
