zReports Research Institute · Updated October 2026
Iowa has 72 active licensed hospices on the state's public file. zReports analyzed CMS hospice certification records to produce a records layer grade for every one, the government's own verdicts, mapped through one fixed rule. No facility can pay to change a score, and the grade is free.
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| Active licensed hospices | 72 |
| Cities covered | 52 |
| Statewide average records layer score | 85 |
| Grade A facilities | 72 (100%) |
| Facilities with a clean record (no deficiencies on file) | 72 (100%) |
| Serious (high severity) findings on the record | 0 |
| Moderate findings on the record | 0 |
#1 Everystep Des Moines · A-
#2 Avera At Home Estherville · A-
#3 Mercyone North Iowa Hospice Mason City · A-
#4 Cedar Valley Hospice Waterloo · A-
#5 Iowa River Hospice Marshalltown · A-
#6 Mercyone Des Moines Hospice Des Moines · A-
#7 Iowa City Hospice Iowa City · A-
#8 Mary Greeley Hospice Services Ames · A-
#9 Mahaska Health Partnership Hospice Services Oskaloosa · A-
#10 Hospice Of Mercy Hiawatha · A-
#11 Hospice INC Serving Davis & Wapello Counties Ottumwa · A-
#12 Hospice Of Dubuque Dubuque · A-
#13 Hospice Of The Heartland Algona · A-
#14 Unitypoint Hospice Cedar Rapids · A-
#15 Lee County Health Department Fort Madison · A-
#16 Sioux Center Health Home Care And Hospice Sioux Center · A-
#17 Mercyone Genesis Bettendorf · A-
#18 Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hosp And Clinics-Hospice West Union · A-
#19 Sanford Home Health And Hospice Sheldon Sheldon · A-
#20 Hospice Of Palo Alto County Emmetsburg · A-
#21 Aseracare Hospice Council Bluffs · A-
#22 Avera @ Home Of Spencer Hospital Spencer · A-
#23 Cherokee Regional Hospice Cherokee · A-
#24 Hospice Of Pella, The Comfort House Pella · A-
#25 Burgess Hospice Onawa · A-
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The free grade on this page contains zero zReports judgment: it maps the state's own published licensing and enforcement verdicts through one fixed rule, applied identically to every hospice in America. Where the record and public reputation diverge, a highly reviewed facility with serious findings on file, the paid Consumer Intelligence Report™ surfaces it through the composite Consumer Z Score™ and our published ten point methodology. Facilities are never contacted and cannot pay to change a score. Read the full methodology →
Hospices in Iowa are overseen by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), whose certification, inspection, and quality-reporting data is published on the public record. This page is computed from CMS hospice certification records, the government’s own filings, not reviews or advertising.
Iowa has 72 active licensed hospices on the state's public file, across 52 cities. Every one has a free records layer grade on zReports.
Cedar Rapids, with 4 licensed hospices, followed by Council Bluffs (4) and Spirit Lake (3).
The free records layer grade contains zero zReports judgment. It maps the government's own published verdicts, CMS hospice certification records, through one fixed rule, applied identically to every hospice in the country. The paid Consumer Intelligence Report™ adds the composite Consumer Z Score™, which audits the record against public reputation through our published ten point methodology.
Reviews and records are different surfaces. Reviews reflect what visitors chose to write, and can be managed by the business. Inspection and enforcement records are filed by the state, are mandatory, and cannot be edited by the facility. When the two diverge, the record is the surface worth checking. That divergence is exactly what zReports was built to surface.
Rankings refresh whenever Iowa republishes its licensing data; facility pages carry the records-verified date for each provider. This page was generated from the current file as of October 2026.
No. Facilities are never contacted, never notified, and cannot pay to be listed, delisted, or re-scored. zReports has no business relationship with any facility it grades, independence is the product.
This report was generated from the zReports Consumer Records Database™, a continuously updated database that normalizes official government licensing, inspection, enforcement, ownership, and safety records across multiple federal and state agencies. Every statistic in this report is traceable to its originating public record. Facilities cannot pay to alter scores, rankings, or findings.
Data source: zReports Consumer Intelligence Database™ v2026.10 · Built from: CMS Provider Data Catalog · HHS OIG Exclusions List (LEIE) · Public consumer review signals (audited, never trusted, in the composite Consumer Z Score™) · Proprietary Consumer Z Score™ methodology · Updated: October 2026
APA, zReports Research Institute. (2026). Iowa Hospice Rankings & Safety Report (v2026.10). zReports.org. https://zreports.org/rankings/hospice/ia
MLA, zReports Research Institute. “Iowa Hospice Rankings & Safety Report.” zReports.org, v2026.10, October 2026, zreports.org/rankings/hospice/ia.
Plain, Iowa Hospice Rankings & Safety Report, zReports Research Institute, v2026.10, updated October 2026, zreports.org/rankings/hospice/ia