Brooklyn Community Estates

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Brooklyn Community Estates says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. Our facility provides 24 hour nursing care, physical, occupational and speech therapy, rehab services, dietary consultation, housekeeping and laundry services, social services, activities, lab services, and mental health services to our residents within the comfort of their living environment. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers. Hospice (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Staff pay and workplace safety

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 Dec 15, 2002 to Dec 14, 2004. Violations found: Child labor. Civil money penalties assessed: $990. Employer as DOL recorded it: Brookhaven Care center (Brooklyn Community Estates, Inc.). Case 1384316.

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 care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Grinnell. 15.1 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 2 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Montezuma Specialty Care, Montezuma. 11.8 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Iowa County Health Department, Marengo. 18.8 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Hy-Vee Pharmacy. 14.6 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 52211 as rural (rural area).

Dialysis within 15 miles

University Of Iowa Hospital & Clinics - Grinnell, Grinnell, 14.5 miles away, straight line

Hospice

7 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 52211.

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Joseph Hoagbin, MD, Marshalltown. 33.4 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 risk

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 moderate. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire relatively low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively moderate, 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.

What we checked

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.