Continuing Care Retirement Communities Communities in Marshalltown, IA

"The staff at the Mayflower are extremely friendly,helpful, and kind. The nurses who work at the Mayflower are very polite and made me feel very welcome during my visit. The Mayflower also has a very neat feature which I really enjoyed seeing which was the dining room. It was very fancy and well staffed. The staff all seemed to know the residents and actually took interest in them as people and there families. I would be very confident in choosing this facility for someone in my family. The rooms are very nice and the staff are so compassionate. I walked away from my visit with a feeling of happiness that most nursing homes/skilled facilities do not provide. The overall look of the facility was also very nice. They had an atrium, outside garden area, a church, and all sorts of amenities you don't typically see in this sort of facility. I would recommend this nursing home to anyone who was looking for one. "

"We moved to the independent living community of Wesley Park Centre in Newton. It's a lovely place. We are on the third floor, and there are balconies to a lot of the apartments, but we do not have a balcony. We do have a beautiful scene out our windows. We are enjoying the independent living part because we can come and go as we please. You're walking distances that you normally don't walk, so you get lots of exercise, too. The people here are also very friendly. They provide about one meal a day, so you can pick whether that's going to be lunch or dinner in the formal dining room, or out at the small bistro that's open from 8 to 4. You could get breakfast there if you prefer. You can always purchase the other meals, and they just get added to your account. We've been in the formal dining room twice, and both times, the food was very good. I heard they are going to change their meal program. They said that instead of having one meal free for the day, they're going to give you an allotment of the money, and they are going to make all of the food in the bistro and dining room have a price on it. You can pick what you want, and they'll serve a couple of main entrees every night, so we'd have several things to pick from. If you don't use the allotment up, you will lose it for the month when you start with a new one. However, they're putting up a little convenience store type of thing where they would have supplies you might need, like toilet paper or paper towels, maybe some boxed cereal or something that wouldn't expire right away. If you had say $10 or $15 left over, instead of it going to waste, you could purchase these items there. That way, you wouldn't be losing money. It is a continuing care facility, and everything is located in the same building, with just different tunnels that go to different places. There's also an underground tunnel that goes right to the hospital next door, so if you had to go to the hospital, you wouldn't have to go outside. One of the other nice things about that place is that they have underground parking, so we all have underground parking and just take the elevator up to our rooms. The staff that I have met has been wonderful. They were remodeling our apartment before we moved in, and a couple of things had not arrived, but the maintenance was very conscious to make sure that we had things that we could use. She was also very helpful to stop by and collect some of the packing boxes and stuff that we had unpacked and get rid of them for me. I haven't really met the chefs or anybody that actually does the cooking, but all the aides that deliver the food have been very friendly, very nice, and very sociable. The people here have also been very helpful like when we left the dining room, and they showed us where we could check for activities or do something like that. For activities, they have different card games going on at different times and on different days. They have exercise activities going on all the time, too. There are also bus trips to Des Moines or to restaurants to eat out, so there are outings that you can go on."