Via Health Services

    4911 SW 19th St, Des Moines, IA 50315
    • 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

    3.35·(37)

    Overall rating

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

      3.3
    • Staff

      3.8
    • Meals

      2.3
    • Amenities

      3.7
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, attentive nursing and caregiving staff
    • In-house physical and occupational therapy team
    • Strong post-acute rehabilitation and discharge planning
    • Specialized dementia-focused memory-care units (women-only option)
    • Staff familiarity with residents and warm interpersonal interactions
    • Engaged activity programming led by a creative director
    • Quiet, healing ambiance in updated wings
    • Clean, well-maintained renovated units
    • Effective coordination with dietician and social work
    • Locally owned operation with consistent employee commitment

    Cons

    • Inconsistent sanitation and odor control across units
    • Staffing shortages and uneven staff coverage
    • Delays in clinical response and call-button responsiveness
    • Variability in staff competence and professionalism
    • Medication-management and emergency-response gaps
    • Facility maintenance and repair deficits in older areas
    • Pest-control concerns in some units
    • Inconsistent dining quality and limited meal options
    • Uneven availability of recreational programming between units
    • Perceived administrative emphasis on insurance/financial factors
    • History of regulatory actions and payer-payment issues

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews of this facility are sharply mixed, with repeated praise for frontline staff and therapy services alongside serious operational and clinical concerns. Many families highlight the facility’s strengths in rehabilitation and memory care, while other accounts describe situations that suggest systemic gaps in sanitation, staffing, and clinical oversight. Prospective residents and families should weigh the competing patterns and verify current practices directly with the facility.

    Care and staff: Numerous comments emphasize compassionate caregiving and strong interpersonal relationships—staff who know residents by name, attentive nurses, and a cohesive team that includes dieticians and social workers. The facility’s in-house physical and occupational therapy team is cited as a substantive strength, with good follow-through for post-acute rehab and home-care referrals. At the same time, reviews indicate variability in staff performance and professionalism; some units and shifts appear well-staffed and coordinated while others experience shortages, especially on upper floors, which contributes to uneven care availability.

    Clinical and safety concerns: Several reviews raise concerns about medication-management processes and emergency response timeliness, as well as catheter and incontinence-care maintenance. These accounts point to potential gaps in clinical oversight and responsiveness that merit direct inquiry. Families should ask the facility about current staffing ratios, medication-safety protocols, emergency response metrics, infection-control procedures, and how adverse events are investigated and communicated.

    Facilities, cleanliness, and dining: Comments about the physical environment are mixed. Renovated wings are described as clean, bright, and quiet, while older sections are characterized by small, dim rooms, maintenance issues, and sanitation concerns in some common areas. There are also mentions of limited outdoor areas and small enclosed yards. Dining quality is inconsistent across accounts: some describe adequate options while others request improved menus and meal variety. Pest-control issues are mentioned in a subset of accounts and should be checked in current inspection reports.

    Activities and memory care: Memory-care programming receives positive notes, particularly a dementia-focused, women-only unit and design changes intended to improve safety and orientation. Activity offerings such as art, bingo, movies, and structured creative programs are praised in several reports; however, activity availability appears uneven between units, so families should ask about the specific schedule and staffing for the unit of interest.

    Management and compliance: Some reviews express concern about administrative priorities—perceptions that financial or insurance considerations influence care transitions and discharge timing. There are also references to fines and payer-payment actions, suggesting a need to review the facility’s regulatory and payer history. Prospective residents should request the most recent inspection reports, citations, corrective-action plans, and information on Medicare/Medicaid status and any payer determinations.

    Bottom line and recommendations: The facility demonstrates clear strengths in rehabilitative therapy, dedicated caregiving staff, and specialized memory-care programming. However, recurring themes around inconsistent cleanliness, staffing levels, response times, medication and emergency handling, and facility maintenance indicate operational variability. Families should tour the specific unit under consideration, review recent state inspection and payer records, ask for current staffing ratios and emergency-response times, and meet the unit director and therapy staff to confirm how the facility addresses sanitation, medication safety, and activity programming on the unit where their loved one would reside.

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    Location

    Via Health Services is located at 4911 SW 19th St, Des Moines, IA, 50315.

    About Via Health Services

    Via Health Services sits at 4911 SW 19th St in Des Moines, Iowa, and you'll find it serves Central Iowa with a wide range of care for seniors, so you can get independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, rehab, respite care, and even long-term nursing care all in one community, and the Fleur Heights Center for Wellness & Rehab forms a part of it, focusing on rehabilitation and overall wellness, which means they have dedicated staff on hand for health and recovery, whether for short stays or longer ones. You've got 24/7 staffing with registered nurses, and the place offers both inpatient and outpatient care, whether that's for skilled therapies like physical, occupational, or speech therapy, or for ongoing help with daily living, which includes things like medication management, meals, personal care, laundry, and housekeeping. There's a special memory care program for folks with Alzheimer's or dementia, where residents get round-the-clock help, individual care plans, and memory-focused activities for mental engagement.

    Assisted living residents get help with daily needs, meals, and medication, while those in independent living can enjoy maintenance-free life, taking part in social events or using resort-style extras, and, if they choose, can add on support services as needed, which really helps in keeping a balance of independence and care. Skilled nursing covers every base, with constant medical help, rehab, wound care, tube feeding, oxygen therapy, nebulizer treatments, ostomy training, pain management, pulmonary care, and hospice when needed, and they even have in-house dental, vision, and foot care, so you don't have to always leave for appointments. The community has private and shared rooms, cable TV, telephone hookups, a dining room, a wellness center, a fitness room, and plenty of outdoor spaces, as well as a garden, a library, computer area, gaming room, and furnished lounge areas for relaxing or meeting neighbors.

    Transportation in the community lets you get to appointments, activities, or just run errands, and support staff helps with moving in and coordinating daily schedules, not to mention there's a beauty salon, organized activities, and life enrichment programs with routines, educational and social events, therapeutic recreation, and music therapy to keep both the mind and body active. Families get support too, with respite care available for up to two weeks to give caregivers a break, and the team includes many different professionals who work with residents and families to make care plans fit each person's own needs and changes. Being family-owned and part of the Iowa health care community, Via Health Services works with local groups like the Iowa Center for Assisted Living and the Iowa Center for Home Care, and everything's designed to make sure the residents can live with as much safety, comfort, and engagement as possible, in a community that tries to feel both home-like and able to handle every stage of aging. You can learn more at viahealthservices.com.

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    No, Via Health Services 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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