State assisted-living licensing record · Iowa DIAL · record as pulled September 22, 2026· Not the federal nursing home survey
Better Living of Walcott
510 N. Main Street, Walcott, IA 52773 · Scott County · 67 licensed beds
DIAL record ID 3150 · licence S0413 · certified through August 22, 2027 · first licensed August 2019
The licence
Licensed by DIAL · Dementia-specific assisted living program
Certification details, as listed by DIAL
- Certified as
- Dementia-specific assisted living program
- Certificate
- S0413
- Certified since
- August 22, 2019
- Current certificate
- From August 22, 2025, expires August 22, 2027
- Occupancy
- 67 units
- Accredited
- No
Position within Iowa
22 citations — more than 92% 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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Building-related citations
The citation about the building itself — physical plant and emergency management. Usually the maintenance side’s to fix.
- 481-69.29-2 In lieu of providing access to a personal emergency response system, a program serving one or more tenants…February 10, 2022
How that compares
Compared with the median licensed assisted living facility in Iowa. Within-state only.
| Measure | Citations |
|---|---|
| This facility | 22 |
| Median facility in Iowa | 2 |
Visit history
| Visit | Type | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| February 10, 2022 | recertification survey; complaint investigation; focused infection control survey | 15 |
| October 5, 2022 | complaint investigation | 4 |
| March 13, 2025 | recertification survey | 3 |
| July 13, 2026 | complaint investigation | 0 |
What the citations cover
- Resident care 11
- Records and administration 5
- Staffing and training 3
- Medication 2
- Other 1
| Category | Citations |
|---|---|
| Resident care | 11 |
| Records and administration | 5 |
| Staffing and training | 3 |
| Medication | 2 |
| Emergency management | 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.
July 13, 2026 — complaint investigation, nothing cited
March 13, 2025 — recertification survey, 3 citations
| Tag | What DIAL checks |
|---|---|
| 481-69.22-2 | Evaluation within 30 days of occupancy |
| 481-69.26-2 | Prior to the tenant's signing the occupancy agreement and taking occupancy of a dwelling unit, a… |
| 481-69.26-3 | When a tenant needs personal care or health-related care, the service plan shall be updated within 30 days… |
October 5, 2022 — complaint investigation, 4 citations
| Tag | What DIAL checks |
|---|---|
| 481-67.2-1 | Program policies and procedures |
| 481-67.3-2 | Tenant Rights |
| 481-69.23-1 | A program shall not knowingly admit or retain a tenant who |
| 481-69.29-4 | A dementia-specific assisted living program shall have one or more staff persons who monitor tenants as… |
February 10, 2022 — recertification survey; complaint investigation; focused infection control survey, 15 citations
| Tag | What DIAL checks |
|---|---|
| 481-67.2 | Program policies and procedures |
| 481-67.2-1 | Program policies and procedures |
| 481-67.2-2 | Program policies and procedures |
| 481-67.3-2 | Tenant Rights |
| 481-67.5-2 | Medications. Each program shall follow its own written medication policy, which shall include when… |
| 481-67.5-2 | Medications. Each program shall follow its own written medication policy, which shall include when… |
| 481-69.22-1 | Evaluation of tenant prior to occupancy |
| 481-69.22-2 | Evaluation within 30 days of occupancy |
| 481-69.22-3 | Evaluation of tenant |
| 481-69.25-3 | All records shall be protected from loss, damage and unauthorized use |
| 481-69.26-3 | When a tenant needs personal care or health-related care, the service plan shall be updated within 30 days… |
| 481-69.29-2 | In lieu of providing access to a personal emergency response system, a program serving one or more tenants… |
| 481-69.29-4 | A dementia-specific assisted living program shall have one or more staff persons who monitor tenants as… |
| 481-69.29-6 | All programs employing a new delegating nurse after January 1, 2010, shall require the delegating nurse… |
| 481-69.39-1 | Length of stay |
DIAL also holds 3 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.