State assisted-living licensing record · Iowa DIAL · record as pulled September 22, 2026· Not the federal nursing home survey
Afton Oaks AL
405 9th St, Elma, IA 50628 · Howard County · 20 licensed beds
DIAL record ID 1715 · licence S0094 · certified through September 12, 2028 · first licensed September 2000
The licence
Licensed by DIAL · Assisted living program
Certification details, as listed by DIAL
- Certified as
- Assisted living program
- Certificate
- S0094
- Certified since
- September 13, 2000
- Current certificate
- From September 13, 2026, expires September 12, 2028
- Occupancy
- 20 beds
- Accredited
- No
Position within Iowa
No citations on file since September 2021 — none of the 437 licensed assisted living facilities in Iowa has fewer. 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 | 0 |
| Median facility in Iowa | 2 |
Visit history
| Visit | Type | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| January 9, 2023 | recertification survey | 0 |
| March 18, 2024 | complaint investigation | 0 |
| July 14, 2025 | recertification survey | 0 |
Every visit on file since September 2021
As published by DIAL, newest first, including visits that cited nothing. The wording is DIAL’s own.
July 14, 2025 — recertification survey, nothing cited
March 18, 2024 — complaint investigation, nothing cited
January 9, 2023 — recertification survey, nothing cited
DIAL also holds 1 older citation 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.