State assisted-living licensing record · Iowa DIAL · record as pulled September 22, 2026· Not the federal nursing home survey
Homestead of Algona
512 N. Finn Drive, Algona, IA 50511 · Kossuth County · 70 licensed beds
DIAL record ID 2896 · licence S0335 · certified through June 1, 2027 · first licensed June 2013
The licence
Licensed by DIAL · Dementia-specific assisted living program
Certification details, as listed by DIAL
- Certified as
- Dementia-specific assisted living program
- Certificate
- S0335
- Certified since
- June 1, 2013
- Current certificate
- From June 1, 2025, expires June 1, 2027
- Occupancy
- 70 units
- Accredited
- No
Position within Iowa
15 citations — more than 87% of the 437 licensed assisted living facilities in Iowa. Compared only within Iowa: a citation from DIAL means what it means in Iowa, and there is no national assisted living record to compare to. Counted over 5 years, which holds two or three routine inspections. How this is calculated
Not in this record
Fire and life safety inspection, severity, the survey report, and enforcement. The fire safety inspection of an Iowa assisted living program is the State Fire Marshal's and is not published; what DIAL itself cites about the building — its structural requirements, the dwelling-unit rules for dementia-specific programs and the fire and safety standards of the Code — is here. DIAL assigns no severity to a citation, and the survey report itself is published only as a scanned image, which is not read. Fines, conditional certifications and other enforcement actions are recorded separately and not republished. Elder group homes and adult day services are other certification types and are not included.
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How that compares
Compared with the median licensed assisted living facility in Iowa. Within-state only.
| Measure | Citations |
|---|---|
| This facility | 15 |
| Median facility in Iowa | 2 |
Visit history
| Visit | Type | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| April 19, 2022 | recertification survey; complaint investigation | 0 |
| May 23, 2022 | complaint investigation; other visit | 0 |
| May 16, 2023 | complaint investigation; incident investigation | 0 |
| April 30, 2024 | recertification survey; complaint investigation | 12 |
| March 18, 2025 | complaint investigation | 0 |
| July 17, 2025 | complaint investigation | 2 |
| January 6, 2026 | complaint investigation | 1 |
What the citations cover
- Resident care 7
- Staffing and training 5
- Food service 2
- Records and administration 1
| Category | Citations |
|---|---|
| Resident care | 7 |
| Staffing and training | 5 |
| Food service | 2 |
| Records and administration | 1 |
Every visit on file since September 2021
As published by DIAL, newest first, including visits that cited nothing. The wording is DIAL’s own.
January 6, 2026 — complaint investigation, 1 citation
| Tag | What DIAL checks |
|---|---|
| 481-69.25-1 | Tenant Documents |
July 17, 2025 — complaint investigation, 2 citations
| Tag | What DIAL checks |
|---|---|
| 481-67.4-3 | Program notification to the department when there is an act that causes major injury to a tenant or when a… |
| 481-69.26-1 | Service plan |
March 18, 2025 — complaint investigation, nothing cited
April 30, 2024 — recertification survey; complaint investigation, 12 citations
| Tag | What DIAL checks |
|---|---|
| 481-67.19-3 | Background check requirements for employer prior to employing an individual |
| 481-67.9-1 | Number of staff |
| 481-67.9-4 | Nurse delegation shall, at a minimum, include within 30 days of beginning employment, all program staff… |
| 481-69.22-3 | Evaluation of tenant |
| 481-69.25-1 | Tenant Documents |
| 481-69.25-1 | Tenant Documents |
| 481-69.26-1 | Service plan |
| 481-69.27-1 | If a tenant receives personal or health-related care, the program shall provide for a registered nurse |
| 481-69.28-4 | Therapeutic diets may be provided by a program |
| 481-69.28-5 | Personnel who are employed by or contract with the program and who are responsible for food preparation or… |
| 481-69.30-1 | All personnel employed by or contracting with a dementia-specific program shall receive a minimum of eight… |
| 481-69.30-3 | Dementia-specific continuing education |
May 16, 2023 — complaint investigation; incident investigation, nothing cited
May 23, 2022 — complaint investigation; other visit, nothing cited
April 19, 2022 — recertification survey; complaint investigation, nothing cited
DIAL also holds 5 older citations for this facility from before September 2021, outside the 5-year window these pages use. They are on the state’s own record.
Reflects the DIAL record as pulled September 22, 2026. A recent visit may not appear yet. This is the Iowa state licensing record; it is not the federal nursing home survey and the two are never combined.