zReports Research Institute · Updated August 2026
Iowa has 389 active licensed nursing homes on the state's public file. zReports analyzed CMS Nursing Home Compare 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 nursing homes | 389 |
| Cities covered | 249 |
| Statewide average records layer score | 75.5 |
| Grade A facilities | 166 (42.7%) |
| Grade B facilities | 79 (20.3%) |
| Grade C facilities | 62 (15.9%) |
| Grade D facilities | 73 (18.8%) |
| Grade F facilities | 9 (2.3%) |
| Facilities with a clean record (no deficiencies on file) | 389 (100%) |
| Serious (high severity) findings on the record | 0 |
| Moderate findings on the record | 0 |
| Combined licensed capacity | 25,254 |
#1 Chautauqua Guest Home #2 Charles City · A
#2 Oaknoll Retirement Residence Iowa City · A
#3 Friendship Village Retirement Waterloo · A
#4 Strawberry Point Lutheran Home Strawberry Point · A
#5 Park Place Mount Pleasant · A
#6 On With Life Ankeny · A
#7 Briarwood Healthcare Center Iowa City · A
#8 Good Samaritan - Saint Ansgar Saint Ansgar · A
#9 Regency Park Nursing & Rehab Center Of Carroll Carroll · A
#10 Chautauqua Guest Home #3 Charles City · A
#11 Mill-Pond Ankeny · A
#12 Mechanicsville Specialty Care Mechanicsville · A
#13 Clearview Home Mount Ayr · A
#14 On With Life Long Term Care Polk City · A
#15 Sunrise Hill Care Center Traer · A
#16 Laporte City Specialty Care La Porte City · A
#17 Accura Healthcare Of Le Mars Le Mars · A
#18 Fonda Specialty Care Fonda · A
#19 Lamoni Specialty Care Lamoni · A
#20 Eldora Specialty Care Eldora · A
#21 Colonial Manor Of Amana Amana · A
#22 Sunrise Terrace Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Winfield · A
#23 Guttenberg Care Center Guttenberg · A
#24 Valley Vue Care Center Armstrong · A
#25 Westview Care Center Britt · 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 nursing home 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 →
Nursing Homes 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 Nursing Home Compare data, the government’s own filings, not reviews or advertising.
Iowa has 389 active licensed nursing homes on the state's public file, across 249 cities, with a combined licensed capacity of 25,254. Every one has a free records layer grade on zReports.
Des Moines, with 12 licensed nursing homes, followed by Cedar Rapids (10) and Dubuque (8).
The free records layer grade contains zero zReports judgment. It maps the government's own published verdicts, CMS Nursing Home Compare data, through one fixed rule, applied identically to every nursing home 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 August 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™ v2026.08 · 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: August 2026
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