Bishop Drumm Retirement Center

    5837 Winwood Dr, Johnston, IA 50131
    • Independent Living
    • 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

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • 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
    • 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

    3.58·(79)

    Overall rating

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

      3.5
    • Staff

      3.7
    • Meals

      3.0
    • Amenities

      3.3
    • Value

      2.3

    Pros

    • Compassionate and attentive nursing staff
    • Dedicated and effective therapy department (PT/OT)
    • Engaging life-enrichment and activities program
    • On-site multi-level care (independent, assisted, skilled)
    • Welcoming dining areas and communal social spaces
    • Maintenance and move-in assistance
    • Religious and spiritual programming
    • Coordinated transportation and appointment support
    • Affordable pricing options and community feel
    • Pleasant outdoor areas and patio/garden access

    Cons

    • Inconsistent medication-administration controls
    • Delayed staff response to call lights and resident needs
    • Staffing shortages and shift-to-shift discontinuity
    • Communication and family-relations gaps in management
    • Inconsistent sanitation and personal-care routines
    • Gaps in therapy staffing, equipment, and continuity of plan
    • Transfer- and mobility-safety practice weaknesses
    • Variable dining quality and unreliable meal assistance
    • Discharge, billing, and referral coordination deficiencies
    • Supply-management and wound-care provisioning gaps
    • Staff training and language-skill limitations
    • Allegations of staff theft and resident-safety incidents

    Summary of reviews

    Reviewers describe a facility with a broadly mixed performance profile: many families and residents praise individual caregivers, therapy teams, life-enrichment staff, and the campus-level conveniences, while others identify systemic operational problems that affect safety and daily living.

    Care quality and clinical coordination: Positive accounts emphasize kind, hardworking nurses and aides and an effective rehabilitation department that helped residents regain mobility. At the same time, a significant theme is inconsistent clinical execution — particularly around medication administration, communication of medication changes, and continuity of care between shifts. Several accounts describe delays in attending to clinical concerns, infrequent physician or PA rounds in some cases, and gaps in coordination with external vendors (pharmacy, therapy partners). There are also repeated statements about inconsistent wound-care and supply availability; a small number of severe clinical outcomes are referenced, which families flagged as a pattern worthy of scrutiny.

    Staff conduct and responsiveness: Many reviewers commend individual staff members for patience, compassion, and responsiveness. However, a recurrent operational weakness is delayed response to call lights and assistance requests, often attributed to staffing shortages or workload pressures. Reviewers also raised concerns about staff training, language barriers, and occasional conduct or communication tone that families found inappropriate. These issues appear to be unevenly distributed: some neighborhoods and shifts are described as highly attentive, others as slow or inattentive.

    Dining and activities: Life-enrichment programming receives consistent praise for creative, resident-focused activities, events, and religious options. Dining impressions are mixed: several reviewers describe appealing communal dining rooms and positive meals or special luncheons, while others report inconsistent meal quality, bland food, and unreliable mealtime assistance for residents who require help. Meal-service continuity and assistance at mealtime emerge as operational areas needing attention.

    Facilities and housekeeping: The campus offers several positives — accessible outdoor areas, patios, and a neighborhood layout that supports small-group dining and socialization. Some reviewers find rooms clean and well-prepared at move-in, and maintenance staff are often singled out as helpful. Conversely, other accounts note older infrastructure, small room sizes, and intermittent sanitation concerns or housekeeping lapses that affect resident comfort and dignity. These cleanliness and laundering inconsistencies appear tied to staffing and process gaps.

    Management, administration, and logistics: Management responsiveness is a clear dividing line in reviews. Several families appreciate proactive outreach, helpful admissions staff, and coordinated transportation or appointment support. But comparable numbers describe unresponsive administrators, slow discharge processing, billing disputes or pressure around room payment/possessions, and poor follow-up on referrals. Communication breakdowns between families and leadership are a recurrent operational criticism.

    Notable patterns and overall impression: The dominant pattern is variability. When core staff and therapy teams are available and engaged, residents report good outcomes and a warm community. When staffing, communication, or process controls falter, the failures tend to concentrate on medication management, timeliness of assistance, therapy continuity, sanitation routines, and administrative follow-through. Prospective residents and families should weigh the facility’s strengths in therapy, social programming, and campus amenities against the reported operational risks; targeted questions about medication protocols, staffing ratios, handoff procedures, and billing/discharge processes are advisable before placement.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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    Location

    Bishop Drumm Retirement Center is located at 5837 Winwood Dr, Johnston, IA, 50131.

    About Bishop Drumm Retirement Center

    Bishop Drumm Retirement Center sits at 5837 Winwood Dr in Johnston, Iowa, right near local hospitals, doctors, shops, and entertainment which makes getting out or seeing specialists easier for folks who live there, and the main language for staff is English. The center belongs to Chiliving Communities and works with Trinity Health Plan. They offer different levels of care like independent living, assisted living-where team members help with things like bathing, dressing, and taking medicine-plus skilled nursing, rehabilitation, adult day services, and memory care for people with Alzheimer's or similar dementia. Residents can sit outside or spend time in indoor common areas, visit the beautician onsite, enjoy chef-prepared meals made with attention to healthy ingredients, or take part in devotional services. There's a full calendar of social, educational, and entertaining activities so folks have chances to meet others, make friends, and stay involved, and the staff tries to create a cozy, warm feeling and give each person some attention. Rooms include features like wheelchair accessible showers and other accommodations for daily needs, whether people get around easily or need more help, and the center offers help with things like diabetic care, managing medicine, and incontinence support, with staff available around the clock. Structured services help residents keep their independence as much as possible while having support nearby, and the lifestyle program means there's always something going on or a newsletter to read. Short-term or respite stays are available, but Bishop Drumm isn't accepting new patients right now and asks people to call about openings. The retirement center tries to make life comfortable and safe with a variety of care options, planned activities, and support for different health conditions as people age.

    People often ask...

    Bishop Drumm Retirement Center offers independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    Yes, Bishop Drumm Retirement Center allows residents to age in place and adjust their level of care as needed.

    The full address for this community is 5837 Winwood Dr, Johnston, IA 50131.

    No, Bishop Drumm Retirement 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.

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