Des Moines Senior AdvisorNewton Village Memory Care, at 122 N. 5th Avenue West in Newton (Jasper County), is a dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D) certified by the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing under certificate S0182, with a maximum occupancy of 18 units and a certificate current through October 6, 2027.
Is Newton Village Memory Care a certified assisted living program in Newton, Iowa?
Newton Village Memory Care appears on Iowa's list of certified programs as a dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D), certificate S0182, with room for 18 units against a Des Moines-area midpoint of 58.
| Field | From DIAL's records |
|---|---|
| DIAL certificate number | S0182 |
| Program type | Dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D) |
| First certified | October 6, 2003 |
| Current two-year certificate | October 6, 2025 through October 6, 2027 |
| Maximum occupancy | 18 units |
| Voluntary national accreditation | No; DIAL monitors it directly |
| Administrator on the DIAL record | Dan Donohue |
| State fines with exit dates since January 2023 | 0 |
| Months since DIAL's last survey or monitoring | 16.9 (next due June 17, 2027) |
| Phone on the DIAL record | (641) 840-1086 |
Iowa certifies assisted living programs for two years at a time (Iowa Code 231C.3), and this certificate period began October 6, 2025. Recertification costs a program $1,000 and an initial certificate $750, under Iowa Code 231C.18.
DIAL dates the first certification to October 6, 2003, about 23 years ago, which places it 16 of 77 by age among the metro's certificates.
What does the dementia-specific certificate at Newton Village Memory Care require?
Yes. DIAL certifies Newton Village 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.
Compared with a general program, an ALP/D has stricter rules: awake overnight staff on site, a written plan for residents who may wander, eight hours of dementia-specific training at hire and annual refreshers, and building features suited to people with cognitive impairment.
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: Newton Village INC, 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 Newton Village Memory Care?
None is listed: the statewide fines report for January 2023 to November 2026 does not name Newton Village Memory Care.
That is a good sign but not the whole picture. Most problems DIAL identifies end in a plan of correction rather than a fine, and those appear only in the monitoring report itself.
Is Newton Village Memory Care due for a state monitoring visit?
DIAL's Survey Due Report counted 16.9 months since the last on-site survey or monitoring of Newton Village Memory Care when we ran it on November 6, 2026, which puts that visit around June 2025; the next one is due by June 17, 2027.
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 Newton Village Memory Care?
The nearest other certified program is Park Centre in Newton, on the same block, with 32 beds and a general certificate.
| Facility | Miles away | Type | Units or beds | State fines since 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Centre 500 1st Street North, 50208 | 0.0 | ALP | 32 | 0 |
| Courtyard Estates at Hawthorne Crossing 601 Hawthorne Crossing Dr. SE, 50035 | 20.7 | ALP/D | 78 | 3 |
| StoryPoint Altoona (assisted living) 1600 8th Street SE, 50009 | 21.3 | ALP | 128 | 0 |
| StoryPoint Altoona (memory care) 1600 8th Street SE, 50009 | 21.3 | ALP/D | 40 | 1 |
| Prairie Vista Village 2785 1st Avenue South, 50009 | 21.9 | ALP | 68 | 0 |
How far is Newton Village Memory Care from a hospital?
Newton Village Memory Care is in Newton, Jasper County, and MercyOne Newton Medical Center is the closest general hospital on DIAL's roster, about 0.9 miles away by straight line.
UnityPoint Health Des Moines Iowa Lutheran is next, roughly 28.9 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 Newton Village Health Care Center (0.0 mi; CMS rating 4 of 5) and Wesley Park Centre (0.0 mi; CMS rating 4 of 5).
Which questions matter most at Newton Village Memory Care?
Let DIAL's data shape the visit: request the most recent monitoring or complaint report and the program's response to it.
- Take the occupancy agreement home and read its fee schedule, service list and transfer criteria before signing.
- 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.
- Ask whether Newton Village Memory Care accepts Elderly Waiver members if savings run out, and what part of the monthly bill the waiver would not cover.
