A Des Moines nursing home that is already facing litigation over a proposed sale to New York investors is now being sued for $767,343 in allegedly unpaid bills.
The federal lawsuit filed this week by Sodexo Operations, a nursing home management company, alleges that it in 2021 entered into an agreement with Calvin Community to manage the 188-unit, continuing-care facility on Des Moines’ Hickman Road. Sodexo says the contract called for it to provide the facility with housekeeping, linen and laundry services, operational and maintenance services and groundskeeping.
Sodexo alleges that at some unspecified time last year, Calvin Community stopped paying for those services. In December 2025, Sodexo alleged it sent the facility notice that it was in breach of contract, specifying $424,145 in past-due service charges, plus $86,174 in interest that was accrued and owing, for a total balance of $510,319…