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Royal Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

4614 NW 84th Street, Urbandale, IA 50322 · 115 beds · For profit - Corporation

The records flag: 2 citations at the most serious level; A Special Focus candidate; 8 findings not yet confirmed as corrected.

Everything here comes from Medicare's own inspection and payroll records. We don't rank facilities or take payment from them.

Medicare overall rating
Much below average · 1 of 5
All nursing staff, hours / resident
3.81
RNs, LPNs and aides · state average 4.37
Weekend RN coverage
−36%
vs weekdays
Staff turnover
67%
state average 44%
2 citations at the most serious level
Inspectors judged that residents were placed in danger of serious injury or death. See the inspection section for dates and whether each was corrected.
A Special Focus candidate
Medicare lists this facility as a candidate for its increased-oversight programme — not on the list itself, but flagged as being near it.
8 findings not yet confirmed as corrected
5 of these have no plan of correction recorded. Worth asking about directly.
$122,945 in fines over three years
Medicare fines facilities when inspection findings are severe or go uncorrected.
Staff turnover of 67% is well above the state average
The average across this state is 44%. High turnover makes continuity of care harder.

These are drawn straight from Medicare's records. We report what the record says — we don't rate facilities or judge the care given in them.

Who's actually on the floor

Staffing is the thing most closely tied to day-to-day quality of care, and it's the number families most often never see. This is registered nurses only — a smaller figure than the all-staff total above, because it counts the most highly qualified staff on their own — per resident, per day, comparing an average weekday against an average weekend.

Weekdays
0.50 hrs
Weekends
0.32 hrs
IA average
0.85 hrs

Registered nurses only — hours per resident per day. Longer is better.

Registered nurse coverage drops about 36% at weekends.

Staff turnover: 67%

High turnover matters because continuity does — a nurse who knows your mother notices when something is different about her. Someone on their second shift doesn't have that baseline.

What inspectors found

State inspectors visit at least once a year and after complaints. Over the last three years this facility received 71 citations. Raw counts mislead, though — a paperwork slip and a resident being harmed both count as one. Here they are by how serious inspectors judged them.

SeverityCitations
Immediate jeopardy
Residents placed at risk of serious injury or death
2
Actual harm
A resident was harmed, without immediate danger to life
5
Potential for harm
No one harmed yet, but conditions could allow it
63
No harm
Rule and paperwork findings
1

49 of these came from someone filing a complaint rather than a routine visit — worth weighing differently, because it means a person picked up the phone. 8 citations are not yet recorded as corrected.

Medicare has issued $122,945 in fines here over the past three years.

Disclosed affiliations

Medicare requires every facility to disclose the people and companies connected to it. Most names below are not owners — they are officers, directors, managers, trustees, and what Medicare calls “additional disclosable parties.” The role beside each name is the one Medicare recorded. This is worth reading because operators tend to run their facilities alike: where the same group stands behind a dozen homes, the record across all twelve tells you more than any single inspection does.

NameRole recorded by MedicareSince
Amaranthine Holdings LLC
100% ownership interest
Direct owner (5% or more) 01/01/2025
Cedar View Holdings LLC Indirect owner (5% or more), Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Cedar View Tr Indirect owner (5% or more), Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Greatorex, Tina Indirect owner (5% or more) 01/01/2025
Iowa 5784 LLC Indirect owner (5% or more), Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Samara Family Holdings LLC Indirect owner (5% or more) 01/01/2025
Schiowitz, Marc Indirect owner (5% or more) 01/01/2025
Sebbag, Gabriel Indirect owner (5% or more), Trustee 01/01/2025
Oconner, Michael Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Reiter, Jennifer Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
4614 NW 84th Street Propco LLC Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Caresage Administrative Consulting, LLC Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Clinical Consulting Services LLC Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Jsj 2020 Family Tr Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Jsj Property LLC Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Samara Fam Tr Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
Summation Financial Services LLC Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025
The Bryn Mawr Trust Company of Delaware Additional disclosable party 01/01/2025

Of the 18 parties disclosed here, 8 hold an ownership interest; the rest are recorded in a management, officer, financial, or other disclosable capacity. A percentage is shown only where Medicare published one — for most disclosed parties it publishes none.

Other options nearby

Most families are choosing between whatever is close enough to visit often — and visiting often is itself one of the better protections a resident has. These are the closest 8 facilities.

FacilityMilesRating Nurse hrsWeekend
Karen Acres Care Center
Urbandale
1.2 5 0.78 −43%
Childserve Habilitation Center
Johnston
2.1 5 2.10 +20%
Bishop Drumm Retirement Center
Johnston
2.4 1 0.85 −30%
Brio of Johnston, LLC
Johnston
3.0 3 1.13 −37%
Walnut Ridge
Clive
3.3 5 1.12 −37%
Calvin Community
Des Moines
3.6 4 0.80 −41%
Pine Acres Rehabilitation and Care Center
West Des Moines
3.7 0.62 −53%
Deerfield Health Care Center
Urbandale
4.3 5 1.61 −26%

Weekend column shows the change in registered-nurse coverage at weekends compared with weekdays.

Worth asking on a visit

Records only tell you so much. These are the questions this facility's particular numbers suggest you ask — go on a weekend if you possibly can.

  1. Can I visit on a Sunday rather than a weekday? How many registered nurses are on duty then, and for how many residents?
  2. Turnover here is about 67%. How long has the director of nursing been in post?
  3. Medicare's records show a citation at the most serious level. What happened, and what changed afterwards?
  4. 8 findings are not confirmed as corrected yet. Where do those stand?
  5. Who will actually be caring for my relative at 3am on a Saturday — an agency nurse or someone on staff?

Where these numbers come from

All figures are published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Different measures cover different periods — some are considerably older than others, so each is dated separately below rather than under one "last updated" stamp.

Staffing hours
Jan–Mar 2026
Staff turnover
calendar year 2025
Inspections & citations
Jul 2023 – Jun 2026
Fines & penalties
last 3 years
Ownership
as reported to Medicare
Star rating & file release
CMS file dated 1 July 2026

We report what the records say and don't draw conclusions about care quality. If you believe something on this page is wrong — email a correction. It reaches a person, not a form. We check every report, fix what is wrong, and say so on the page; see how we handle corrections. If you work at this facility and our figures disagree with your own records, we want to hear that too.