Azria Health Park Place: Repeated Safety Failures - IA
Inspectors who visited Azria Health Park Place on September 11, 2025, found the 59-resident facility had been cited for infection control deficiencies in both 2023 and 2024. It had been cited for maintaining a safe, clean, and homelike environment in both of those years as well. When inspectors left on September 11, they cited the facility for both violations again.
The facility had a quality improvement plan on paper. It had been revised as recently as February 5, 2025. It listed multiple sources of data the facility would monitor. What it did not include was any process for addressing deficiencies the facility had already been cited for, the kind that had been showing up repeatedly in its own internal meeting records.
Inspectors reviewed the facility's quality assurance meeting minutes going back to November 27, 2024. The minutes documented repeat problems, the same deficient practices flagged during the last standard survey, appearing again and again across multiple meetings. There was no documentation that anyone had followed through on fixing them.
At 1:12 in the afternoon on the day of the inspection, inspectors sat down with the Director of Nursing, who was also serving as the facility's acting quality improvement designee. She could not explain why the same issues kept appearing in the meeting minutes. She could not explain where any documentation of follow-through was supposed to be found.
She said her expectation was that follow-through would be documented and that issues would not be repeated.
The Regional Director of Operations was present for the same interview. She acknowledged that previous facility leadership had not followed through with the quality improvement plan that had been created in response to the last standard survey.
That acknowledgment raised its own question. The plan revised in February 2025 came after that leadership failure had already been identified. It still did not include a mechanism for tracking and resolving the violations the facility had already accumulated. Inspectors cited the deficiency under the federal tag governing quality assurance and performance improvement programs, noting that the failure affected many residents.
Infection control failures in nursing homes carry specific risks for elderly residents, whose immune systems are less equipped to fight off illness spread by lapses in hygiene, equipment handling, or isolation procedures. A facility that has been cited for those failures in consecutive years without correcting them is one where the same conditions that produced the first citations have been allowed to persist.
The homelike environment citations, appearing alongside infection control in both prior years and again in 2025, point to physical conditions in the building that have also gone unaddressed across multiple inspection cycles.
What the February 2025 plan revision did not build in was accountability for exactly that pattern. The Director of Nursing, now responsible for the quality improvement function, told inspectors she expected problems to be fixed and documented. The records showed they had not been.
The Regional Director of Operations placed responsibility on prior leadership. But the plan those leaders left behind, revised months into 2025, still had the same gap.
Fifty-nine people live at Azria Health Park Place. The meeting minutes show their facility's leadership has been aware of recurring problems since at least late 2024. The inspection on September 11 found the same violations waiting.
Full Inspection Report
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Azria Health Park Place in Des Moines, IA was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 11, 2025.
It had been cited for maintaining a safe, clean, and homelike environment in both of those years as well.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.