Accura HealthCare of Ames

    3440 Grand Ave, Ames, IA 50010
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    2.75·(16)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.6
    • Staff

      2.8
    • Meals

      1.4
    • Amenities

      2.7
    • Value

      2.8

    Pros

    • Friendly, compassionate staff
    • Professional and personable nursing staff
    • Positive family engagement and welcoming visits
    • Rehabilitation services and exercise equipment
    • Varied resident activities, including bingo and outings
    • Resident choice and individualized activities
    • Clean, comfortable common areas
    • Recent updates to the foyer, hallways, and bedrooms
    • Management responsiveness to concerns

    Cons

    • Medication-administration and medication-timing reliability concerns
    • Uneven meal quality and service timeliness
    • Variable staff interaction quality
    • Aging building, compact rooms, limited in-room amenities, and hallway noise

    Summary of reviews

    Feedback about care quality is mixed. Several families praised attentive, dignified care, and one described professional, personable nurses. However, one family recounted serious concerns during a short stay, including limited hands-on care, wound-care follow-through and meal support, as well as being unable to visit during COVID restrictions. The family attributed a marked change in the resident’s cognition and medical deterioration requiring hospital transfer to medication administration. This account is not corroborated elsewhere in the supplied reviews, but it raises important questions for families to discuss directly with the facility. Separate reviewers also raised concerns about medication timing or missed doses, indicating that medication reliability merits specific inquiry.

    Staff experiences vary. Positive comments describe kind, friendly, compassionate, and professional employees, with one family noting that staff treated their father with dignity. Another reviewer felt staff were disrespectful to a loved one. One reviewer said management took complaints seriously, while other accounts describe dissatisfaction with communication and responsiveness. Families may wish to ask how concerns are documented, escalated, and communicated.

    Dining feedback is also mixed: one reviewer felt a resident ate adequately, while others described poor food quality and late meal service. Activities include bingo, rehabilitation exercises, and outings, and a reviewer highlighted resident choice and individualized options. The building is described as older, with some small rooms; other comments mention limited room amenities and noise in the main hallway. A reviewer also noted recent updates to shared spaces and bedrooms, and another found the environment clean and comfortable. Overall, the reviews present a combination of positive staff and activity experiences with concerns about medication processes, meal service, and the consistency of care; an in-person visit and direct questions about current practices may help families assess fit.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Accura HealthCare of Ames is located at 3440 Grand Ave, Ames, IA, 50010.

    About Accura HealthCare of Ames

    Accura HealthCare of Ames sits over on Grand Ave in Ames, Iowa, and folks will find it's the type of place that's got a calm, close-knit feel where everyone seems to know each other. The facility covers a lot of care options, from short-stay rehab and skilled nursing to long-term care and assisted living, and they've shaped things around helping people regain health and keep their independence as long as possible, so you see a lot of focus on physical, occupational, and speech therapy-people practice balance, movement, and strength there, simple exercises but steady progress, you know. For those who need a bit more help, staff are there round-the-clock for medical and daily needs, even things like bathing or grooming, and they're pretty careful about tailoring plans for residents with Alzheimer's or other memory problems, so that each person has routines and care that fit them as best as possible. There are counseling and a social services center, and hospice care too, done in partnership with outside hospice teams, focusing on comfort and making the later stages of life a bit easier. The place is tied to WesleyLife Community for Healthy Living, and that seems to mean there's an extra push towards helping everyone stay as independent as their health allows. Memory care is a big part of what they do, with programs that keep folks engaged-music therapy gets used for comfort, and daily routines there have activities for social time and learning. There's respite care, too, where people can stay a little while-maybe from three days to two weeks-if their usual caregiver needs a break, and general counseling is available. The building itself stays well-organized and peaceful, and the staff seem used to helping with mobility, safety, and just general daily life. You'll find all the regular assisted living amenities, but it's the steady attention, individual plans, and community feeling that stand out most at Accura HealthCare of Ames. If you want to know more, you can look them up online at www.accura.healthcare.

    People often ask...

    Accura HealthCare of Ames offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 3440 Grand Ave, Ames, IA 50010.

    No, Accura HealthCare of Ames does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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