Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community

    1007 7th St NE, Orange City, IA 51041
    • Independent Living
    • Assisted Living

    Resident, caring staff, excellent dining

    I'm very satisfied living here - beautiful grounds, caring and helpful staff who show love every day, and excellent restaurants. It's also an enjoyable workplace with a friendly, supportive atmosphere.

    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

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

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

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.00·(8)

    Overall rating

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

      1.0
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      4.0
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      4.0

    Pros

    • Welcoming residential environment
    • Friendly, helpful staff
    • Consistent resident-centered daily care
    • Attractive, well-maintained facilities
    • Quality, enjoyable dining options
    • Engaging workplace culture for employees
    • Supportive assistance with daily activities

    Cons

    • Limited visitation policy flexibility
    • Gaps in family communication about resident health
    • Inconsistent transparency from staff and management
    • Staff conduct and responsiveness
    • Gaps in care-quality oversight and accountability
    • Allegations of serious misconduct prompting external scrutiny

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews present a mixed picture of life at Landsmeer Ridge. Many comments describe the community as an attractive, comfortable place to live with pleasant common areas and a generally welcoming environment. Reviewers frequently praise the dining program and restaurants, and characterize the facility as a positive workplace where staff express enjoyment and engagement. These positive reports indicate that, on a day-to-day basis, residents experience friendly interactions, routine assistance, and an environment that many find enjoyable.

    Care quality descriptions are divided. Positive statements emphasize consistent, resident-centered daily care and active, helpful staff who assist with daily needs and activities. At the same time, other reviews raise significant concerns about aspects of clinical oversight and responsiveness. These concerns center on delays or inconsistencies in care, questions about how staff conduct is managed, and perceived shortcomings in supervisory oversight. Together these comments suggest variability in the resident experience depending on unit, shift, or individual staff members.

    Staff-level feedback is similarly mixed. Numerous reviewers commend the staff for being friendly, helpful, and invested in residents’ wellbeing, and some describe the workplace culture as supportive. Conversely, a subset of reviews notes problems with communication tone and timeliness, and expresses worry about how certain incidents were handled. Dining and activities receive generally favorable remarks: the restaurants are described as enjoyable and the community offers routine social engagement. Facilities are frequently described as attractive and well maintained, which is consistently highlighted as a strength.

    Management and communication emerge as the clearest areas of concern. Several reviews describe restricted visitation and limited flexibility around family access, and others identify failures in timely notification to families about resident health status. There are also mentions of inconsistent transparency from staff and leadership when incidents occur. A small number of reviews raise serious criticisms that have prompted calls for external scrutiny; these have been characterized here as allegations of serious misconduct and underscore the importance of clear incident-reporting and accountability mechanisms.

    Notable patterns: positives cluster around environment, dining, and day-to-day staff–resident interactions, while negatives cluster around communication, oversight, and incident handling. Prospective residents and families considering Landsmeer Ridge should weigh the facility’s strengths in ambiance, dining, and friendly staff against the reported variability in care oversight and communication practices. When evaluating the community, it is reasonable to ask management about visitation policies, family-notification protocols, staffing ratios and training, incident reporting procedures, and recent regulatory or inspection records to better understand how the facility addresses the concerns reflected in these reviews.

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    Location

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    Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community is located at 1007 7th St NE, Orange City, IA, 51041.

    About Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community

    Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community offers different living options for seniors in Orange City, Iowa, and the place kind of has a friendly and smaller feel, with a medium size that gives people a chance to get to know their neighbors without the crowding of bigger places, and you'll notice that the folks here can pick from independent living, assisted living, or care tailored for memory or nursing needs, so there's some flexibility whether someone needs just a little help or quite a bit more care. The community sits at 1007 7th St NE, and the campus connects with different health services from the Orange City Area Health System, which makes it simpler for residents to get medical attention or therapies when they need them, and if people need skilled nursing, occupational therapy, or physical therapy, they can get that right on site too, and there's also that Prairie Ridge Care Center as part of it, plus other outreach and home health options.

    People who live here don't have to worry about most of the chores, because staff takes care of the housekeeping and laundry, and if someone doesn't want to cook, meals are prepared with organic ingredients and served in the dining room, and there are allergy-sensitive and diabetic-friendly options, which makes meal time easier for folks with special diets. The apartments and rooms can be either private suites or shared, and each place comes furnished and pretty set up with private bathrooms, kitchenettes, air-conditioning, telephones, cable TV, and internet, so those day-to-day comforts are all there, and people can use their own things to make the place feel like home, and the maintenance-free setup lets seniors relax instead of keeping up a house.

    Seniors here might need help with things like showering, dressing, or taking medication, and the staff is around 24/7 to give that assistance or respond to any calls for help, and there's a system in place so you can always reach someone quickly if there's a problem, especially important for people who need close supervision. There's medication management as well, and daily activity support for those who move on their own but need a hand with the basic things. For people with memory challenges, the community provides memory care with staff who know how to work with Alzheimer's and dementia, and residents who want to stay active can take part in group activities, arts, movie nights, or enjoy walking paths, a garden, and the library. There's a barber and salon on site and a little gift garden too, and the wellness programs try to keep people feeling connected.

    When someone needs extra specialized care, the connected MB1 clinic, Prairie Ridge Care Center, and outreach buildings provide options for skilled nursing, short-term rehab, respite care, and hospice, and for folks who only need day time care, adult day care is available. The design of the place helps those who want to keep as much independence as possible, but there's supervision and care when it's called for, and the whole thing is for people aged 62 or above, with 36 independent living apartments and 33 for assisted living, fitting the needs of those who can get around on their own with support for the things that are now too hard to do solo.

    The whole setup is close to churches, shops, and some health care spots like the Orange City Medical Clinic, Korver Ear, Nose and Throat, and Dutch Mill Pharmacy, which helps people run errands or see doctors without going far. Housekeeping, linen service, and transportation for appointments are part of the offerings, so rides to the doctor are taken care of. Overall, Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community keeps things simple by offering a mix of personal help, on-site care, therapy, and a safe, friendly place to live, helping seniors stay involved and as independent as possible while still having help nearby if needed.

    People often ask...

    Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $4,093 per month.

    Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community offers independent living and assisted living.

    The full address for this community is 1007 7th St NE, Orange City, IA 51041.

    No, Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community 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 number1799
    StatusActive
    Facility typeAssisted Living Programs
    Capacity54 residents
    EffectiveMay 9th, 2026
    ExpiresMay 8th, 2028
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    Inspection Reports

    7

    Reports

    1

    Type A Citations

    0

    Type B Citations

    1

    Complaints

    16

    Years

    14 Oct 2024Renewal
    Found no deficiencies during the recertification visit.
    05 Oct 2021Renewal
    Identified multiple deficiencies related to staff training, tenant evaluations, and service plan updates. Violations were found for failure to train staff, evaluate tenants timely, and update service plans as needed.
    • 481-67.9(6)Dependent adult abuse training
    • 481-69.22(2)Evaluation within 30 days of occupancy
    • 481-69.22(3)Evaluation annually and with significant change
    • 481-69.26(1)Service plans
    24 Apr 2018Renewal
    Identified failure to complete required 90-day nurse reviews for tenants receiving program-administered medications, indicating a regulatory insufficiency in medication oversight.
    • Type A481-69.27(1)aNurse Review
    19 May 2016Renewal
    Found that background checks were not completed within the required 30-day period before hire, with evidence that a check was used more than 30 days after the hire date. A plan of correction was provided to implement a second-check process for future hires.
    • 481-67.19(4)Record checks and background check validity
    03 Dec 2014Renewal
    Concluded no regulatory insufficiencies were cited during the final recertification monitoring and evaluation.
    14 Mar 2012Renewal
    Found no regulatory insufficiencies during the monitoring visit. No violations were cited.
    14 Apr 2010Complaint
    Investigated the program's operations and found substantial compliance with regulations; no deficiencies were cited.

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