Independent Living and Assisted Living
Rose of Ames
1315 Coconino Road, Ames, IA 50014 · Map
Licensed for 112 residents
Rose of Ames is a state-licensed independent living, assisted living community in Ames, Iowa. It is licensed for 112 residents. Lilisity publishes no score or ranking for this community; the details below come from the state licensing record.
Prices
Starting prices the community publishes, with the date we checked each one and a link to where it is published. Care charges are usually added after an assessment.
| Care | Starting at | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Assisted Living | $1,245 /mo | Oct 12, 2026 |
Area costs
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Rose of Ames says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Provides transportation.
..., which include an initial health assessment and regular monitoring, emergency response and security readiness, service access facilitation to connect you with transportation and service resources, health and wellness education, as well as a variety of social activities such as in-house movies, raised-bed gardening, sh...
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: two-bedroom.
rental rates, these beautifully appointed senior residences offer the best of two worlds: independent living in your own private one-or-two-bedroom apartment, combined with 24-hour monitoring and assisted living services available as needed on-site from your trusted healthcare professionals, Open Arms Home Health Care...
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
Lilisity’s independent report
What the public record shows
Gathered by Lilisity from state and federal sources. Communities can’t edit this part of the page.
State inspections
Last recertification or initial survey: Jul 15, 2024. See the record
License
Active, 112 residents
Assisted Living Program S0209.
Nearest emergency room
3.7 miles
Mary Greeley Medical Center, rated 4 of 5 stars by CMS.
Side by side with nearby communities
The 4 nearest communities that offer assisted living, by straight-line distance. Prices are starting prices each community publishes; we never show estimates.
| Community | Distance | Licensed capacity | Published starting price | License | Inspection citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rose of Ames this community | 112 | $1,245/mo | Active | 6 state violations in 3 years | |
| Independence Village of Ames | 0.0 mi | 122 | $3,329/mo | Active | 4 state violations in 3 years |
| Independence Village of Ames AL | 0.0 mi | 90 | Not published | Active | No record |
| Assisted Living at Northcrest Community | 3.0 mi | 64 | Not published | Active | No record |
| Bickford Cottage Ames | 3.0 mi | 63 | $4,256/mo | Active | 13 state violations in 3 years |
State inspection record6 state violations in 3 years
- Last recertification or initial survey
- July 15, 2024
- Visits in three years
- 3
- Complaint visits in three years
- 3
- State violations (all visits)
- 6
- State fines in three years
- None
- Certification expires
- February 25, 2027
- No violations cited at the last 2 visits (February 2025 to May 2026)
- Certified since 2005
Visits (newest first)
- May 13, 2026: Complaint, no state violations listed · report
- February 20, 2025: Complaint, no state violations listed · report
- July 15, 2024: Recertification, Complaint, 6 state violations · report
- Tenant Rights. To be treated with consideration, respect, and full recognition of personal dignity and autonomy. 481 IAC 67.3(1)
- Nurse delegation shall, at a minimum, include the program having a system in place by which certified and noncertified staff communicate in writing occurrences that differ from the tenant's normal health, functional and cognitive status. The program's registered nurse or designee shall train certified and noncertified staff on reporting to the program's registered nurse or designee and documenting occurrences that differ from the tenant's normal health, functional and cognitive status. The written communication required shall be retained by the program for a period of not less than three years and shall be accessible to the department upon request. 481 IAC 67.9(4)g
- Evaluation of tenant. Evaluation annually and with significant change. A program shall evaluate each tenant's functional, cognitive and health status as needed with significant change, but not less than annually, to determine the tenant's continued eligibility for the program and to determine any changes to services needed,. The evaluation shall be conducted by a health care professional, a human service professional, or a licensed practical nurse via nurse delegation when the tenant has not exhibited a significant change. A licensed practical nurse shall not complete the evaluation when the tenant has exhibited a significant change. 481 IAC 69.22(3)
- Service plan. A service plan shall be developed for each tenant based on the evaluations conducted in accordance with subrules 69.22(1) and 69.22(2) and shall be designed to meet the specific service needs of the individual tenant. The service plan shall subsequently be updated at least annually and whenever changes are needed. 481 IAC 69.26(1)
- The service plan shall be individualized and shall indicate, at a minimum: a. The tenant's identified needs and preferences for assistance; 481 IAC 69.26(4)a
- If a tenant receives personal or health-related care, the program shall provide for a registered nurse: to monitor, at least every 90 days, or after a significant change in the tenant's condition, any tenant who receives program-administered prescription medications for adverse reactions to the medications and to make appropriate interventions or referrals, and to ensure that the prescription medication orders are current and that the prescription medications are administered consistent with such orders; and 481 IAC 69.27(1)a
DIAL Health Facility Database record → (Rose of Ames)
What these terms mean
DIAL's Health Facility Database lists each visit to the program, the number of state violations found, and any certification or licensure action and fine that followed. The scanned report for each visit is linked; it holds the inspectors' findings in full.
Recertification: DIAL's routine survey of the program for its certification. Complaint: a visit to look into a complaint. Incident: a visit to look into an incident the program reported. Initial: the survey of a new program. A revisit is a follow-up visit after an earlier one. A visit can be more than one type.
Iowa Code 231C.14 lets DIAL fine an assisted living program for “noncompliance with any regulatory requirements which presents an imminent danger or a substantial probability of resultant death or physical harm to a tenant,” for continued failure to comply after notice, or for interfering with an inspector. A fine is reduced by 35 percent when the program does not contest it and pays within 30 days; the Assessed Fines Report shows this as “State Adjusted”. “State Susp” is the part suspended.
A complaint visit with no violations listed does not say whether the complaint was substantiated; the linked report does. This program is certified for 112 residents or units; larger programs are visited and cited more often, so read counts with size in mind. Source: Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing (DIAL), Health Facilities Division, data as of October 16, 2026. Always visit in person and ask the program about anything listed here.
License and ownershipActive license
- License type
- Assisted Living Program
- License number
- S0209
- License status
- Active
- Licensed capacity
- 112
- County
- Story County
- Administrator
- Jami Kaufman
Source: Iowa state licensing records (agency listing), retrieved 2026-09-09. Licensing status is a matter of public record; it is not a quality rating.
Administrator name from the Iowa licensing record, as of Sep 9, 2026.
Paying with Medicaid and other programsHow Medicaid pays for care in Iowa, and other programs
How Medicaid pays for care in Iowa
- Elderly (E) Waiver, Assisted Living Service. Iowa Medicaid's Elderly Waiver, for people 65 and older, lists "Assisted Living Service" among its services. Waiver slots can have waiting lists. (state page)
- Waitlist. Iowa HHS says there is currently no waitlist for the Elderly Waiver, and that this could change. (source)
Ask the community whether it accepts Medicaid.
Staff pay and workplace safety1 federal wage case with violations found
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for May 1, 2019 to Apr 24, 2021. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $977 owed to 3 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: The Rose of Ames (EverGreen Real Estate Development Corporation). Case 1938556.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
Location and nearby careNearest hospital 3.7 mi, nursing home 1.8 mi, pharmacy 0.8 mi
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Mary Greeley Medical Center, Ames. 3.7 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Green Hills Health Care Center, Ames. 1.8 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Mary Greeley Home Health Services, Ames. 3.7 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Hy-Vee Pharmacy. 0.8 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 50014 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Ames Mary Greeley Dialysis, Ames, 5.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
- Hospice
- 6 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 50014.
Mary Greeley Hospice Services, office in Ames, 3.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
St Croix Hospice, office in Ankeny, 21.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Joseph Hoagbin, MD, Marshalltown. 38.2 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard riskFEMA overall risk relatively low; outside FEMA's high-risk flood areas
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively low, wildfire very low, tornado relatively high, heat wave very low, earthquake very low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
Questions to ask on a tour10 questions picked for this community from its record
Picked for this community from its record. Ask them in person and write down the answers.
- The Department of Labor found wage violations here for a period ending April 2021. What changed in how staff are paid?
- Your published starting price is a base rate. What would the total monthly cost be for my parent's needs?
- How much have prices gone up in each of the last three years?
- How many caregivers are on duty during the day and at night?
- What happens if care needs increase? When would someone need to move?
- What fees are charged at move-in?
- How do you tell families about falls, illness or changes?
- How long have the executive director and the head of care been here?
- Who gives medications, and what training do they have?
- For what reasons can a resident be asked to leave?
What we checked12 public sources we searched, with dates
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing (DIAL), Health Facilities Division inspection records | Oct 16, 2026 | See above |
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
Common questionsAnswers to 4 questions families ask
What type of care does Rose of Ames provide?
Rose of Ames is licensed by the state of Iowa for independent living, assisted living in Ames, Iowa. Its licensed capacity is 112 residents.
Does Lilisity rate Rose of Ames?
No. We publish state licensing details for Rose of Ames but no score, rating, or ranking. Only communities on the Top Communities list or with a Senior Living Alliance Excellence Award, both based on phone-verified resident and family interviews, are ranked.
How much is rent at Rose of Ames?
Rent at income-restricted senior apartments is set by income, usually about 30% of household income for HUD and USDA rental assistance units, or a fixed below-market rent for tax-credit units. Ask the property manager about current rent, income limits and the wait list.
How do I apply to Rose of Ames?
Apply through the property manager. Buildings like this have age limits (usually 62 and over, sometimes 55 and over) and income limits, and there is often a wait list. The property manager may not be on site.
How Lilisity works. The only scores or rankings Lilisity publishes are the Top Communities list and the Excellence Awards, both built from phone-verified resident and family interviews. Communities can pay Lilisity a flat monthly fee to manage their own listing: photos, prices, contact details, and receiving the inquiries families choose to send them. The fee is the same no matter how many families contact them or move in. Senior Living Alliance, which runs Lilisity, offers the same listing to its member communities as part of their membership; members pay SLA for its resident and family interview program. No community pays Lilisity per inquiry, per referral or per move-in. Payment never changes a testimonial, a rating, or the order of search results. The "Nearby Senior Living Alliance communities" box shows member communities only. How we verify testimonials · How we are paid