Des Moines Senior AdvisorStoryPoint Pleasant Hill, at 6151 Martha L Miller Drive in Pleasant Hill (Polk County), is a dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D) certified by the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing under certificate S0503, with a maximum occupancy of 140 units and a certificate current through December 1, 2026.
What does Iowa's certificate record show for StoryPoint Pleasant Hill in Pleasant Hill?
DIAL's Entity Report lists StoryPoint Pleasant Hill under certificate S0503 with 140 units and an expiration date of December 1, 2026, larger than the metro midpoint of 58 for ALP/D certificates.
| Field | From DIAL's records |
|---|---|
| DIAL certificate number | S0503 |
| Program type | Dementia-specific assisted living program (ALP/D) |
| First certified | December 1, 2024 |
| Current two-year certificate | December 1, 2024 through December 1, 2026 |
| Maximum occupancy | 140 units |
| Voluntary national accreditation | No; DIAL monitors it directly |
| Administrator on the DIAL record | not given |
| State fines with exit dates since January 2023 | 0 |
| Months since DIAL's last survey or monitoring | 16.9 (next due June 18, 2027) |
| Phone on the DIAL record | (515) 498-3609 |
Iowa certifies assisted living programs for two years at a time (Iowa Code 231C.3), and this certificate period began December 1, 2024. Recertification costs a program $1,000 and an initial certificate $750, under Iowa Code 231C.18.
DIAL dates the first certification to December 1, 2024, about 2 years ago, which places it 73 of 77 by age among the metro's certificates.
What does the dementia-specific certificate at StoryPoint Pleasant Hill require?
Yes. DIAL certifies StoryPoint Pleasant Hill 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.
Iowa sets no numeric staff-to-tenant ratio even here, so ask how many workers are inside the program after 10 p.m. and whether they also cover other parts of the building.
The full rules are summarized on our dementia-specific program page.
What enforcement history does DIAL show for StoryPoint Pleasant Hill?
We found no state fine for StoryPoint Pleasant Hill 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.
How recently has DIAL visited StoryPoint Pleasant Hill?
The state's own scheduling report shows 16.9 months since StoryPoint Pleasant Hill was last surveyed, so the visit fell near June 2025, with the next due by June 18, 2027.
Under 481 IAC 67.10 the cycle is at least one monitoring visit per 24 months; individual survey reports can also be looked up in DIAL's Health Facilities database.
Which certified programs are closest to StoryPoint Pleasant Hill in Pleasant Hill?
The nearest other certified program is Assisted Living at Copper Shores Village in Pleasant Hill, on the same block, with 76 units and a general certificate.
| Facility | Miles away | Type | Units or beds | State fines since 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assisted Living at Copper Shores Village 1500 Edgewater Drive, 50327 | 0.0 | ALP | 76 | 1 |
| Memory Support at Copper Shores Village 1500 Edgewater Drive, 50327 | 2.3 | ALP/D | 28 | 0 |
| Prairie Vista Village 2785 1st Avenue South, 50009 | 2.9 | ALP | 68 | 0 |
| StoryPoint Altoona (assisted living) 1600 8th Street SE, 50009 | 4.2 | ALP | 128 | 0 |
| StoryPoint Altoona (memory care) 1600 8th Street SE, 50009 | 4.2 | ALP/D | 40 | 1 |
How far is StoryPoint Pleasant Hill from a hospital?
StoryPoint Pleasant Hill is in Pleasant Hill, Polk County, and UnityPoint Health Des Moines Iowa Lutheran is the closest general hospital on DIAL's roster, about 6.0 miles away by straight line.
UnityPoint Health - Des Moines Iowa Methodist Medical Center is next, roughly 6.9 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 Parkridge Specialty Care (1.0 mi; CMS rating 1 of 5) and Prairie Vista Village (3.7 mi; CMS rating 5 of 5).
What should we ask StoryPoint Pleasant Hill before signing?
Let DIAL's data shape the visit: 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.
- Take the occupancy agreement home and read its fee schedule, service list and transfer criteria before signing.
- 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.
- Ask whether StoryPoint Pleasant Hill accepts Elderly Waiver members if savings run out, and what part of the monthly bill the waiver would not cover.
