Calvin West is a quiet, private place to call home, free of the responsibility of home maintenance. The Calvin West apartments include one or two bedrooms, a full kitchen, some with balconies, some overlooking the courtyard gardens. Heated, enclosed garages are provided.
Stay active on and off campus
In addition to the amenities and full calendar of activities on campus, residents can keep up with activities off campus as well. You can keep a car in our heated, secure garage or use Calvin’s transportation services.
Garden plots, a library, a computer lab, an exercise room, a recreation room, weekly worship service and laundry facilities are all available on campus.
Each apartment includes a full kitchen. The option for additional meals is available.
All buildings are secured and residents have an emergency call system and access to emergency nursing care.
Services and amenities
- One – or two – bedroom apartments
- Convenient location with churches and shopping nearby
- Elegant dining room for meals and special entertaining
- Heated, fully-enclosed, secure garage
- Secure building with nightly security rounds
- Emergency call system
- Access to emergency nursing care
- Library
- Recreation room
- Lounges
- Exercise room
- Paid utilities
- Housekeeping service
- Laundry facilities
- Multi-purpose room for meetings and informal gatherings
- Garden plots
- Weekly worship services
- Social activities
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That coupled with a turn key offering of satellite TV, safety pull cords, emergency call pendants, Wi-Fi, all basic utilities, bi-weekly housekeeping, underground parking, and all your inside and outside maintenance taken care of, what’s not to love about living at Calvin West?
Oh, and we haven’t even talked about the endless list of activities we offer, and the friends you haven’t met yet!
When we decided it was time to sell our house and find a place to spend the rest of our senior years, we spent days shopping all over Des Moines and the suburbs and then finally came to the conclusion that Calvin Community was the most desirable place to be.
Calvin Resident

Continuum of Care
A wonderful part about Independent Living at Calvin Community is that if needs change, Calvin offers a complete continuum of care, including assisted living, a health center and memory care.


