Hawkeye Care Center

    5575 Pennsylvania Ave, Asbury, IA 52002
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Happy resident enjoys caring staff

    I had a smooth transition to this newer, clean facility and I'm very happy here. I love the caring administrators, nurses, therapy team and friendly front desk - I enjoy the activities and getting my hair done. My large, well-equipped room with a roll-in bathroom is comfortable, it's close to home for easy visits, and they do daily vitals checks so I feel well looked after.

    Current/former resident
    Jul 2026

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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

    3.11·(9)

    Overall rating

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

      3.0
    • Staff

      3.2
    • Meals

      3.1
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      3.1

    Pros

    • Clean, well-maintained environment
    • Large, accessible rooms with roll-in bathrooms
    • Newer building and modern design
    • Convenient location for family visits
    • Caring and friendly nursing staff
    • Engaged therapy and rehabilitation team
    • Regular vitals and nursing checks
    • Welcoming front desk and administrative team
    • Active resident activities and grooming services
    • Smooth admissions and transition process

    Cons

    • Inconsistent clinical competency and staff training
    • Delays in clinical responsiveness and pain management
    • Variable staff professionalism and resident engagement
    • Insufficient supervision and management accountability
    • Personal-device use and staff distraction at care stations
    • Potential safety and emergency-preparedness gaps
    • Low occupancy and underutilized common areas affecting atmosphere

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews present a mixed picture. Many commenters praise the facility’s physical plant, therapy services, and welcoming administrative staff, while others raise substantive operational concerns. Prospective residents and family members will find both clear strengths to evaluate and several areas that merit direct follow-up during a visit.

    Care quality: Positive comments highlight regular nursing checks (daily vitals) and an engaged therapy team, which suggests active clinical monitoring and rehabilitation programming for some residents. At the same time, there are descriptions that imply variability in clinical competence and responsiveness, including accounts of delayed attention to resident needs and an instance prompting hospital transfer. Those items point to inconsistent execution of clinical protocols rather than uniform facility-wide performance.

    Staff and management: Many reviews emphasize caring nurses, friendly front-desk personnel, and administrators who assisted with a smooth transition. Counterbalancing those observations are reports indicating uneven staff professionalism, distractions at nursing stations (personal-device use), and a general sense of weak managerial oversight. Together these suggest a work-culture and supervision gap: staffing can be strong in places but appears uneven in training, supervision, and day-to-day accountability.

    Facilities and activities: The facility is described as newer, clean, and well-maintained with large, well-equipped resident rooms and roll-in bathrooms—features that support accessibility and family visits. Reviewers also note active programming and services such as activities and grooming/hair appointments. However, some reviewers describe underutilized common areas and a quieter, sparsely populated atmosphere; others raised safety-related observations. Those comments indicate it is reasonable to ask management about occupancy levels, activity schedules, and the facility’s emergency-preparedness measures.

    Dining and ancillary services: There is limited direct commentary on dining in the available summaries. Positive remarks focus on activities and therapy; for dining quality, meal schedules, and special-diet accommodations, an in-person assessment or specific questions to staff are recommended.

    Notable patterns and recommendations: The dominant pattern is polarization — clear strengths in facility condition, accessibility, and certain staff/therapy interactions coexist with credibility issues around consistent clinical performance, staff supervision, and on-shift professionalism. When evaluating this facility, families should conduct a focused tour and ask for documentation or demonstrations of staffing ratios, staff training protocols, incident-response procedures, medication- and pain-management policies, personal-device/phone policies at care stations, and emergency-preparedness/fire-safety documentation. Those targeted questions will help confirm whether the operational controls are aligned with the positive elements described in many reviews.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

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    Hawkeye Care Center is located at 5575 Pennsylvania Ave, Asbury, IA, 52002.

    About Hawkeye Care Center

    Hawkeye Care Center sits at 5575 Pennsylvania Ave in Asbury, Iowa, and has been serving older adults since 1969, offering a range of care with skilled nursing, long-term care, assisted living, assisted living-memory care, palliative care, respite care, and rehabilitation, so if someone needs help for a short time or long-term support, they have several options and levels of care. People live in private rooms with queen-sized beds, kitchen spaces, sitting spots with TVs and fireplaces, and the center lets residents decorate their rooms using command strips, but no nails, and while they don't run phone lines into resident rooms, they suggest folks use a MagicJack Go if they want a personal line. Meals prepared by experienced staff, with snacks and coffee available all day, try to keep people comfortable, and daily planned activities and regular reminders aim to help residents stay social and involved. For physical needs, there's a therapy gym for physical, occupational, and speech therapy, restorative programs, a physical therapy room with medicine balls, and treatment rooms, and the campus even has a salon with dark blue walls and dark wood cabinets for a bit of pampering.

    Nurses and care staff are present around the clock, and the leadership team covers roles like Administrator, Director of Nursing, MDS/Care Plan Coordinator, Assistant Director of Nursing, Social Worker, Dietary Manager, Office Manager, Human Resources, Activities Director, Housekeeping and Laundry Supervisor, Maintenance Supervisor, and Marketing/Community Relations Director, with the administrator being Tracey Long. The campus is divided into four wings across two floors-the lower floor houses the Transitional Care-Skilled Nursing Rehabilitation and Penn Suites, while the upper floor includes Heacock Suites as well as Heritage Suites for assisted living and Francis Suites for assisted living-memory care, and there's always 24-hour access to nursing care and paved walking areas, a courtyard, balcony seating with tables and chairs, housekeeping, laundry, and a salon area. Hawkeye Care Center is a smoke-free campus, which means they don't allow cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or smokeless tobacco anywhere, and they don't allow pets to visit unless they have a current rabies certificate. Visitors can come any time, day or night, and family is encouraged to visit and even spend time in the dining room or in private event areas, though all new residents must have a physician's order, TB skin test, and personal items labeled before admission. The staff say they work to foster safe routines and a sense of community, which looks like scheduled activities, chances for social interaction, and wellness programs that get folks up and moving, either with group activities or out in the spacious activities center or even a stroll outside. With 80 full-time and 60 part-time employees, Hawkeye Care Center has the staff to watch out for people's needs, whether that's skilled care during recovery, management of long-term health needs, memory care, or just a comfortable home with a focus on safety and daily life.

    People often ask...

    Hawkeye Care Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

    There are 6 photos of Hawkeye Care Center on Mirador.

    The full address for this community is 5575 Pennsylvania Ave, Asbury, IA 52002.

    No, Hawkeye Care Center 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.

    Safety & Compliance

    In Iowa, the Department of Inspections, Appeals & Licensing licenses assisted living and long-term care programs, conducting recertification visits and complaint investigations.

    License number3089
    StatusActive
    Facility typeAssisted Living Programs for People with Dementia
    Capacity28 residents
    EffectiveAugust 22nd, 2024
    ExpiresAugust 22nd, 2026
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    Inspection Reports

    5

    Reports

    3

    Type A Citations

    0

    Type B Citations

    3

    Complaints

    7

    Years

    15 Jul 2025Complaint
    Identified deficiencies in evaluating tenants’ health and status, updating service plans to reflect changes, and maintaining tenant documents.
    • Type A481-69.22(3)EVALUATION OF TENANT
    • Type A481-69.26(1)SERVICE PLANS
    • Type A481-69.25(1)TENANT DOCUMENTS
    24 Sept 2024Complaint
    Found no regulatory deficiencies during the recertification visit.
    01 Aug 2022Renewal
    Identified deficiencies in dementia-specific education for staff, including delays in training within 30 days of hire and lack of hands-on components.
    • 481-69.30(1)Dementia Specific Education for Personnel
    • 481-69.30(5)Dementia-specific training shall include hands-on training
    28 Mar 2019Complaint
    Investigated a complaint about incident reporting and found that incident reports for a resident were not consistently recorded on printed forms during February 2019.
    • Incident reporting failure
    13 Feb 2019Initial
    Identified multiple deficiencies related to sanitation training, transportation safety, and security measures, indicating non-compliance with selected state requirements.
    • 481-69.28(5)Food Service
    • 481-69.28(6)(b)Transportation
    • 69.33(7)Transportation
    • 481-69.35(1)cStructural Requirements

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