Des Moines Senior AdvisorMill Pond ALP/D, at 1201 SE Mill Pond Ct in Ankeny (Polk County), is a dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D) certified by the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing under certificate S0027, with a maximum occupancy of 36 units and a certificate current through January 31, 2027.
Is Mill Pond ALP/D a certified assisted living program in Ankeny, Iowa?
DIAL's Entity Report lists Mill Pond ALP/D under certificate S0027 with 36 units and an expiration date of January 31, 2027, smaller than the metro midpoint of 58 for ALP/D certificates.
| Field | From DIAL's records |
|---|---|
| DIAL certificate number | S0027 |
| Program type | Dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D) |
| First certified | January 31, 1999 |
| Current two-year certificate | January 31, 2025 through January 31, 2027 |
| Maximum occupancy | 36 units |
| Voluntary national accreditation | No; DIAL monitors it directly |
| Administrator on the DIAL record | Allison Hoyt |
| State fines with exit dates since January 2023 | 0 |
| Months since DIAL's last survey or monitoring | 32.3 (next due March 13, 2026) |
| Phone on the DIAL record | (515) 964-2273 |
Iowa certifies assisted living programs for two years at a time (Iowa Code 231C.3), and this certificate period began January 31, 2025. Recertification costs a program $1,000 and an initial certificate $750, under Iowa Code 231C.18.
DIAL dates the first certification to January 31, 1999, about 28 years ago, which places it 3 of 77 by age among the metro's certificates.
What does the dementia-specific certificate at Mill Pond ALP/D require?
Yes. DIAL certifies Mill Pond ALP/D 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.
That certificate brings extra duties under 481 IAC chapter 69: staff awake and on duty around the clock on site, eight hours of dementia training for every employee within 30 days of hire, eight more hours a year for direct-care staff, and written procedures for a tenant who goes missing.
No fixed ratio applies, which makes the overnight headcount the number to ask for in writing.
The same street address also holds a general assisted living certificate: Mill Pond AL, so a spouse without dementia can often live in the same community.
The full rules are summarized on our dementia-specific program page.
Has Iowa fined Mill Pond ALP/D?
None is listed: the statewide fines report for January 2023 to November 2026 does not name Mill Pond ALP/D.
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 Mill Pond ALP/D?
DIAL's Survey Due Report counted 32.3 months since the last on-site survey or monitoring of Mill Pond ALP/D when we ran it on November 6, 2026, which puts that visit around March 2024; the next one is due by March 13, 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.
What other assisted living is near Mill Pond ALP/D?
The nearest other certified program is StoryPoint Siena Hills in Ankeny, about 0.7 miles away as the crow flies, with 132 units and a dementia-specific certificate.
| Facility | Miles away | Type | Units or beds | State fines since 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StoryPoint Siena Hills 455 SW Ankeny Road, 50021 | 0.7 | ALP/D | 132 | 0 |
| Suites of Ankeny 420 NW Ash Drive, 50021 | 1.7 | ALP | 68 | 0 |
| Independence Village of Ankeny MC 1275 SW State Street, 50023 | 2.1 | ALP/D | 20 | 0 |
| Independence Village of Ankeny AL 1275 SW State Street, 50023 | 2.7 | ALP | 88 | 2 |
| StoryPoint Ankeny (assisted living) 2855 SW Vintage Parkway, 50023 | 2.7 | ALP | 182 | 0 |
Where is Mill Pond ALP/D, and how close are the hospitals?
Mill Pond ALP/D is in Ankeny, Polk County, and UnityPoint Health Des Moines Iowa Lutheran is the closest general hospital on DIAL's roster, about 8.1 miles away by straight line.
Broadlawns Medical Center is next, roughly 8.7 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 Mill Pond (0.1 mi; CMS rating 5 of 5) and Sunny View Care Center (2.3 mi; CMS rating 2 of 5).
Also licensed at this street address: Mill Pond (nursing facility, license 770477). On a shared campus a tenant can often change levels of care without leaving the community.
What should we ask Mill Pond ALP/D before signing?
Start with what the state's own record raises: request the most recent monitoring or complaint report and the program's response to it.
- 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 how the program handles a tenant who needs two-person transfers or more than 28 hours a week of nursing, the point where Iowa rules usually require a move.
- 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.
