zReports Research Institute · Updated September 2026
Iowa has 118 active licensed hospitals on the state's public file. zReports analyzed CMS Hospital Compare general information and quality data 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 hospitals | 118 |
| Cities covered | 105 |
| Statewide average records layer score | 81.8 |
| Grade A facilities | 84 (71.2%) |
| Grade B facilities | 16 (13.6%) |
| Grade C facilities | 16 (13.6%) |
| Grade D facilities | 2 (1.7%) |
| Facilities with a clean record (no deficiencies on file) | 118 (100%) |
| Serious (high severity) findings on the record | 0 |
| Moderate findings on the record | 0 |
| Critical Access Hospital | 82 |
| General Acute Care Hospital | 32 |
| Psychiatric Hospital | 4 |
#1 Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs Council Bluffs · A
#2 Iowa City Va Medical Center Iowa City · A
#3 Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital And Clinics West Union · A
#4 Waverly Health Center Waverly · A
#5 Clarke County Hospital Osceola · A
#6 Van Diest Medical Center Webster City · A
#7 Cass County Memorial Hospital Atlantic · A
#8 Trinity Muscatine Muscatine · A-
#9 University Of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Down Iowa City · A-
#10 Mary Greeley Medical Center Ames · A-
#11 Mercyone Newton Medical Center Newton · A-
#12 Va Central Iowa Healthcare System Des Moines · A-
#13 St Lukes Hospital Cedar Rapids · A-
#14 Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center West Burlington · A-
#15 Mercyone Waterloo Medical Center Waterloo · A-
#16 Mercy Medical Center - Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids · A-
#17 Mercyone Clinton Medical Center Clinton · A-
#18 Spencer Municipal Hospital Spencer · A-
#19 Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa · A-
#20 Chi Health Missouri Valley Missouri Valley · A-
#21 Compass Memorial Healthcare Marengo · A-
#22 Regional Health Services Of Howard County Cresco · A-
#23 Regional Medical Center Manchester · A-
#24 Virginia Gay Hospital Vinton · A-
#25 Clarinda Regional Health Center Clarinda · A-
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Hospitals in Iowa are overseen by the state's licensing authority, whose certification, inspection, and quality-reporting data is published on the public record. This page is computed from CMS Hospital Compare general information and quality data, the government’s own filings, not reviews or advertising.
Iowa has 118 active licensed hospitals on the state's public file, across 105 cities. Every one has a free records layer grade on zReports.
Des Moines, with 4 licensed hospitals, followed by Iowa City (3) and Council Bluffs (2).
The free records layer grade contains zero zReports judgment. It maps the government's own published verdicts, CMS Hospital Compare general information and quality data, through one fixed rule, applied identically to every hospital 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 September 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™ v2026.09 · 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: September 2026
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