Courtyard Estates at Cedar Pointe in Pleasant Hills IA is a horrible facility. It honestly needs to be shut down. My mother lived there for four years until last week when she was kicked out. It used to be a much better place when they had a competent caring nurse that supervised care and put residents first. Since she left, the place went downhill fast. The manager Tina, doesn't care about residents, only the money they bring in. She has never addressed concerns about lack of staff, cleanliness of the facility, or any other basic care needs that have been brought to her attention. The nurse they now have Mary, is rarely around, lazy, and is an embarrassment to the nursing profession. They now hire anyone off the streets with no prior experience or knowledge of elder care and it shows. We had a camera in my mothers room, so we saw and heard more than they would want us to. My poor mother has dementia and is on Hospice care and Tina kicked her out during this COVID pandemic because we complained about my mother's room not being cleaned for three weeks. You would think with the virus spreading through these facilities, cleaning and disinfecting rooms would be happening more, not stop like it did. We heard that the housekeeper Sahli was afraid of getting the virus so she didn't want to go in residents rooms. Just so happens that Tina and Sahli are best of friends. We inquired about the lack of cleaning on a Tuesday and received the call on Thursday that my mother needed to leave. My mother's level of care hasn't changed in 9 months. Actually, her level of care was easier for staff because Hospice was coming in and helping with her. So this was nothing but a cruel, vindictive act carried out on our dying mother by Tina to get back at us because we dared to speak up about her best friend not doing her job. Who does this to a frail dying person? You can't imagine how horrible and sad this was for our family to scramble to find her a new place that would take her during this COVID scare. How hard the move was on my mother in her frail condition. She sees no familiar faces, and family can't visit. Luckily we did find another facility and they are taking wonderful care of her. But that doesn't erase what my mother was put through. We just heard today that this Courtyard now has a staff member that tested positive for the virus! Possibly due to the lack of cleaning and disinfecting? Or maybe Tina's lack of leadership and not enforcing staff to always be in masks, wearing gloves and turning away caregivers with temperatures? We may never know. All I know for sure....keep your loved ones away from this place!! read more

My parents and I just visited my grandmother and the bathroom was a disgusting mess. She can't remember to flush and she definitely cannot clean. The staff is supposed to take care of that and it isn't being done. The family will get together and decide what the facility needs to do to correct this read more

My mom lived at Courtyard Estates for four years. I always believed what I was told that you moved in as part of a community and became family. You lived here and died here with your "family" around you. For the most part this had been a wonderful loving place for her to be. It was a big family with the best staff and the most loving and kind nurse (Heather) anywhere. The staff was amazing and hung out with the residents all the time and it was always fun and funny to be there. Everything changed when Heather left and nothing was the same. The best part was the amazing staff that have stayed and the some of the really good ones hired. My mom declined after a stroke,bounced back and then broke her hip last summer. She's been hospice since July and it was my assumption that this is where she would stay until the end. As she started slowing down sleeping more and eating less as I was told would happen, she was asked to leave. I was told her level of care has changed but in reality the only change happening was she was dying. The "reason" I was given was that she couldn't feed herself but I was told by the hospice nurse this was normal and she could use ensure as a meal replacement. So as mom had started seeing Jesus and past family members she was kicked out. Who kicks out a frail dying woman during a pandemic just so she could die somewhere that wasn't her home or where no one loved her? She had to move without me being there or checking it out first, but thanks to many wonderful people I think she is in a good place. I've talked to so many kind people and I've been assured she will not be kicked out. I guess they say everything happens for a reason but I just hope this ugly part at the end of her fades quickly. read more

This place is beautiful and the staff are very kind and are very attentive to the residents. My mother is very happy there.