Pricing ranges from
    $4,949 – 6,433/month

    Whispering Creek Senior Living

    2609 Nicklaus Blvd, Sioux City, IA 51106
    • Independent Living
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Hospice waiver
    • 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

    Memory care community services

    • Dementia waiver
    • Mild cognitive impairment
    • Specialized memory care programming

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    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

    4.85·(169)

    Overall rating

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

      4.7
    • Staff

      4.9
    • Meals

      4.5
    • Amenities

      4.8
    • Value

      2.8

    Pros

    • Bright, modern, clean, and well-maintained buildings and grounds
    • Spacious apartments with options across independent, assisted, and memory care
    • Warm, welcoming staff and positive staff–resident interactions
    • Engaging activities, events, and shared social spaces
    • Well-regarded amenities, including libraries, fitness areas, theater, billiards, salons, and outdoor spaces
    • Dining frequently praised for flavor, presentation, and chef-prepared meals
    • Helpful tours, move-in coordination, and resident transportation
    • Visitor check-in and secure, peaceful setting
    • Positive long-term experiences shared by some resident families

    Cons

    • Reported inconsistency in memory-care bathing and medication follow-through
    • Limited individualized care planning when residents decline personal care or medication
    • Difficulties accessing clear billing explanations and resolving care concerns
    • Variable meal quality and fit with traditional food preferences
    • Long walking distances, wayfinding challenges, and parking or location concerns

    Summary of reviews

    Whispering Creek is generally characterized as an attractive, spacious, and well-maintained community, with independent living, assisted living, and memory care options. Residents and visitors describe bright interiors, appealing views, comfortable apartments, and amenities such as libraries, a theater, fitness areas, billiards, salons, and outdoor spaces. The scale and layout are not ideal for everyone: one visitor found the hallways lengthy, and others raised wayfinding, parking, or location considerations.

    Staff warmth and professionalism are the most consistent strengths in the feedback. Families, visitors, and community partners often describe staff as friendly, helpful, and attentive, and several families report positive experiences over extended stays. Tour and move-in assistance is also praised. However, one detailed family account—repeated nearly verbatim in the supplied reviews—described difficulty obtaining consistent bathing and medication follow-through for a relative with dementia, despite repeated discussions with staff. The family also felt that care refusals were not met with an effective individualized plan, and found billing explanations and escalation of concerns difficult. This account is more specific and critical than the broader positive feedback, so families considering memory care may want to ask how declined care is documented, re-offered, and communicated, and how medication concerns and charges are reviewed.

    Dining feedback is largely favorable, including praise for chef-prepared meals and hosted lunches, but it is not uniform. Some residents or family members found meals inconsistent or preferred simpler, more traditional options. Activities are a notable strength across the reviews, with examples including bingo, movies, exercise, shopping trips, seasonal events, and outdoor activities. One account suggests organized programming may be less extensive on the independent-living side than in other areas.

    Management and operational impressions are also mixed but mostly positive: visitors describe welcoming tours, responsive move-in support, and a well-run appearance, while the family account raises concerns about communication tone and problem resolution. Many reviews are brief impressions from tours, visits, staff, or professional partners, rather than detailed evaluations of ongoing personal care. Overall, the feedback points to strong appeal in the environment, amenities, and interpersonal welcome, alongside specific questions for prospective families about memory-care service follow-through, care-refusal planning, billing review, and meal preferences.

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    Location

    Whispering Creek Senior Living is located at 2609 Nicklaus Blvd, Sioux City, IA, 51106.

    About Whispering Creek Senior Living

    Whispering Creek Senior Living sits right next to the Whispering Creek Golf Course and has a comfortable, home-like campus where people can get independent living, assisted living, and memory care, so folks can stay as their needs change, whether they're mostly independent or need more support with daily things like bathing, dressing, or medications, and they keep people safe with technology too, like special bracelets that sound an alarm if someone at risk of wandering tries to leave. The community welcomes people who might wander or try to leave, and there's a whole secured building area for memory care where the staff use monitored units, and everyone working there is trained to help with Alzheimer's, dementia, diabetes, incontinence care, and even big behavior challenges, with nurses and other staff on duty around the clock to keep everyone safe and comfortable. Apartments come in different styles-like studios, one-bedrooms, two-bedrooms, and semi-private options-and there are full kitchens or kitchenettes, private or shared rooms, private baths with wheelchair accessible showers, individual heat and air controls, washer and dryer hookups, and rooms where folks can bring their own favorite decorations and furniture. There's also garage parking for residents, parking for visitors, plus bus lines nearby and free rides to appointments or outings, so moving around is easy, and if driving isn't something residents want to do, there's always someone to help. Three meals a day are cooked by a chef, and residents can have meals in the restaurant-style dining room, in their suite, with guests, or in a private room if they want, and snacks like ice cream from the on-site bar make the place feel welcoming.

    There are a lot of activities at Whispering Creek Senior Living, with a full-time activity director offering art classes, gardening, yoga, Wii bowling, wine tasting, trivia nights, music groups, brain fitness games, and outings, as well as educational lectures, community service, cooking classes, and live well programs that help keep minds sharp and bodies moving. There are outdoor patios, gardens, a putting green, a courtyard, and inside there's a movie theater, TV lounge, computer center, recreation room, arts and crafts area, a bistro, and a community dining hall where people can gather, plus devotional services for those who want them. Housekeeping, linens, laundry, and dry cleaning are all handled by an in-house team, with an on-site beautician and spa services, so residents can feel comfortable and cared for day-to-day, and pets are allowed too, after checking to make sure they're a good fit. People with diabetes can get help with checking blood sugar and insulin, and reminders and care are there for folks who need help using the restroom.

    Tailored care plans help meet each resident's unique needs, and the property is built for both privacy and togetherness, with an overall balance between safety, independence, and dignity. The property stays secure at all times, and staff are always awake and ready to help, including people who manage medications and provide reminders, along with a nurse, RNs, LPNs, medication care managers, and medication techs on site. There's a family-friendly approach, with everyone from the Executive Director to the sales and business staff dedicated to treating residents with respect, and personalization is encouraged, so people can truly feel at home. The community pays close attention to keeping things upbeat and interesting, whether that's through group games, story time, offsite trips, movie nights, or simply gathering in the bistro. Whispering Creek Senior Living believes in a balance-so residents have chances to be active, social, creative, or restful, and people can count on reliable staff and curated spaces that make the place easy to live in, with a joyful, safe, and welcoming environment for all who call it home.

    People often ask...

    Whispering Creek Senior Living offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $4,949 per month.

    Whispering Creek Senior Living offers independent living, assisted living, memory care, and continuing care retirement community.

    There are 60 photos of Whispering Creek Senior Living on Mirador.

    Yes, Whispering Creek Senior Living allows residents to age in place and adjust their level of care as needed.

    The full address for this community is 2609 Nicklaus Blvd, Sioux City, IA 51106.

    No, Whispering Creek Senior Living 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 number2768
    StatusActive
    Facility typeAssisted Living Programs for People with Dementia
    Capacity110 residents
    EffectiveJanuary 4th, 2026
    ExpiresJanuary 4th, 2028
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    Inspection Reports

    25

    Reports

    1

    Type A Citations

    1

    Type B Citations

    11

    Complaints

    16

    Years

    14 Jan 2025Renewal
    Found no regulatory insufficiencies cited during the recertification visit. The program met dementia-specific certification criteria over two consecutive reviews.
    02 Aug 2023Complaint
    Investigated a complaint and found no deficiencies.
    25 Jan 2023Complaint
    Investigated and found no deficiencies.
    18 May 2022Renewal
    Identified that preliminary service plans were not signed by those who developed them for four tenants.
    • 481-69.26(2)Service Plans
    18 May 2022Complaint
    Found that preliminary service plans were not signed by those who developed them for two tenants.
    • 481-69.26(2)Service Plans
    25 Aug 2021Incident
    Identified safety deficiencies related to courtyard security and exit doors, including an unlocked gate and a propped exit door, with an elopement incident reported.
    • IAC 481-69.35(1)(b) - Structural RequirementsStructural Requirements
    25 Aug 2021Other
    Identified deficiencies in dementia-specific education for personnel and in incident reporting practices, with missing training documentation and delays in reporting incidents.
    • IAC 481-67.2(3)Program Policies and Procedures
    • IAC 481-69.30(3)(b)Dementia-Specific Continuing Education for Personnel
    08 Jan 2020Renewal
    Identified regulatory insufficiency due to missing dementia-specific education documentation for staff and failure to complete required training within 30 days.
    • 481-69.30(1)Dementia Specific Education for Personnel
    • 481-69.30(231C)Dementia-Specific Education for Program Personnel
    08 Jan 2020Initial
    Found no deficiencies cited during the initial certification.
    07 Mar 2019Complaint
    Identified a deficiency where door alarm policies and procedures were not followed for one tenant based on interviews and record review.
    • 481-67.2Program policies and procedures
    08 Jan 2019Complaint
    Investigated and found that services were not provided as planned for one resident; housekeeping was not performed per the care plan and records were incomplete.
    • —Continued from page 1: failed to provide services as directed by service plans
    14 Dec 2017Incident
    Investigated a complaint about background checks and found a staff member was hired before DHS evaluation was completed. The findings show regulatory insufficiency in background checks.
    • 67.19(3)eBackground checks - prior to employment
    • 481-67.19(5)Record checks
    14 Dec 2017Incident
    Identified failure to obtain a DHS evaluation prior to employment for a staff member with a child abuse history.
    • 481-67.19(5)Record Checks
    20 Jan 2016Renewal
    Found no regulatory deficiencies during the recertification review.
    27 May 2015Complaint
    Investigated a complaint and found no regulatory insufficiencies.
    19 Jun 2014Complaint
    Investigated and found regulatory insufficiencies with incident handling and tenant protections; assessed a $1,000 civil penalty.
    • Type BIowa Code 231C.14(1)(b) and Iowa Administrative Code 481 IAC 67.17(1)(b)Civil penalty assessment
    • Type AIowa Administrative Code 481-69.22(1) and (2); 481-69.26(1)Regulatory insufficiency – service plans and evaluations
    29 Jan 2014Incident
    Investigated a complaint about inappropriate staff conduct toward tenants with dementia and found regulatory insufficiencies in assessment, service planning, and background checks.
    • IAC r. 481-69.22(2)Tenant assessment after move-in
    • IAC r. 481-67.19(3)Criminal history/background checks
    • IAC r. 481-69.26(4)(a, c, d, e)Service Plan
    02 Oct 2013Complaint
    Investigated a complaint alleging safety checks and care concerns; found no deficiencies.
    04 Feb 2013Incident
    Investigated the complaint and concluded there were no regulatory insufficiencies found. The document summarizes the program census and incident timeline without identifying violations.
    31 Oct 2012Incident
    Investigated a complaint about missing medications and related storage concerns; observed medication-management issues but no regulatory deficiencies identified.
    24 Apr 2012Complaint
    Conducted investigation found violations of state rules related to medication and resident care, resulting in a $1,000 civil penalty and review of the corrective plan.
    • Iowa Code § 231C.14Civil Penalty
    • 481 IAC 67.12(3)(a)Civil Penalty
    26 Oct 2011Renewal
    Found no deficiencies. The regulator concluded compliance with applicable requirements.
    08 Jun 2011Complaint
    Investigated a tenant-related complaint and concluded that no regulatory insufficiencies were identified.
    23 Mar 2011Complaint
    Found a regulatory insufficiency due to the service plan not being individualized and not indicating the tenant's needs and preferences.
    • IAC 481-69.26(4)(a)Regulatory Insufficiency
    18 Aug 2010Initial
    Investigated the verbal abuse allegation and found no regulatory insufficiencies.

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