Davita Five Seasons Dialysis
A dialysis facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52403
1002 4th Avenue SE, Suite A, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52403. (319) 363-1538.
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The short answer
Record last released by CMS on Oct 14, 2026. We couldn’t read Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ list since Nov 2, 2026: qcor.cms.gov now refuses our reader. This record is as of then.
- 3of 5 CMS’s star rating
- Not rated patient survey rating
- 1 deficiency cited in the last three years
- 16 dialysis stations
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean3
- Star ratings
- CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
The last inspection on record was on Feb 5, 2025: a complaint inspection.
1 deficiency cited in the last three years.
CMS, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated monthly.
When those deficiencies happened
1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2025. Most serious: Standard-level. The last 3 years, to Oct 20, 2026.
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Each deficiency, as cited
Rule titles as CMS’s inspectors cite them, set in sentence case.
CMS, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated monthly.
Feb 5, 2025: complaint inspection1 deficiency
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Ic - Wear Gloves/Hand Hygiene
The inspectors’ words, 424 words
“IC-WEAR GLOVES/HAND HYGIENE CFR(s): 494.30(a)(1) Wear disposable gloves when caring for the patient or touching the patient’s equipment at the dialysis station. Staff must remove gloves and wash hands between each patient or station. This Standard is not met as evidenced by: 50072 Based on review of facility policy, observations, and interviews, the facility failed to ensure staff performed hand hygiene in accordance with facility policy. The facility staff reported a hemodialysis patient census of 58 at the time of the survey. Failure to perform hand hygiene, following the removal of soiled gloves can lead to cross contamination of other surfaces and other patients, and potentially place all 58 patients receiving in center hemodialysis treatments at risk for infections. Review of the facility policy titled INFECTION CONTROL FOR DIALYSIS FACILITIES, with the latest revision date of April 2023, reads in part: HAND HYGIENE 1. All teammates, Physicians and Non-Physician, will perform hand hygiene: A. Upon entering and exiting patient area, B. Prior to gloving and immediately after removal of gloves, C. After contamination with blood or other infectious material, D. After patient and dialysis delivery system contact, E. After interacting with wall boxes (i.e., plugging/unplugging acid/ bicarb lines from dialysis machine, changing acid types, when exchanging a dialysis machine) F. Between patients even if the contact is casual, G. Before touching clean areas such as supplies, supply cart and chairside keyboard/mouse ... Observations on 02/03/25 at 12:51 pm showed Staff F at Station #11 held a glove in their hand and touched the machine with the wadded up glove. Staff F then donned the gloves they were holding without completing hand hygiene. Staff F then doffed one glove to use the computer. They typed on the computer with one hand then doffed the other glove without performing hand hygiene before leaving the station. An observation on 2/3/2025 at 13:10 showed staff E returning patient 1 to station #15 while wearing gloved hands. The patient’s access was bleeding through their bandages. Staff E, with their gloved hands grabbed the full trash in a manner where their fingers went inside the trash bin. Staff E did not change gloves or perform hand hygeine prior to changing Patient #1’s bandages. Observation on 02/04/25 at 11:37 am showed Staff I at Station #12 failed to perform hand hygeine prior to donning gloves and intiating a dialysis treatment for Patient #3. During an interview on 02/05/25 at 8:55 am, Staff E acknowledged that hand hygiene, including proper glove use per facility policy is not always consistent amongst staff. 51639”
The one inspection in the last three years
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2025 | Complaint inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
Is it certified?
- Medicare-certified dialysis facility, certified or last recertified on Oct 17, 2014.
- Run for profit.
- No For hospices, home health agencies, hospitals and dialysis facilities, CMS writes deficiencies at two levels. Standard is the usual one; condition-level is the more serious, when a problem is serious enough that the provider doesn’t meet a whole condition of taking part in Medicare. Source: CMS, State Operations Manual. deficiency on record in the last three years.
- Chain: DaVita.
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
CMS, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated monthly.
Has it been penalized?
- CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for dialysis facilities.
- 1 deficiency cited in the last three years came from an inspection that included a complaint investigation.
CMS, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated monthly.
What does it offer?
- Offers in-center hemodialysis.
- Doesn’t offer peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis training and a shift starting at 5 p.m. or later.
- 16 dialysis stations.
- CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for dialysis facilities.
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility and Patient survey (ICH CAHPS) - Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
Who owns it?
- Part of the DaVita chain, as CMS lists it.
- CMS publishes no owners file for dialysis facilities, so no other owner is named.
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
How do patients fare?
- CMS rates it 3 of 5 stars (Jan 1, 2021 to Dec 31, 2024).
- Compared by CMS with what it expects for the facility’s patients: patient survival, as expected; hospital admissions, as expected; readmissions to hospital, as expected; blood transfusions, as expected; emergency department visits, as expected; emergency department visits within 30 days of a hospital stay, as expected; bloodstream infections, as expected; patients dialysing through a fistula, as expected; patients put on a kidney transplant waitlist in their first year of dialysis, as expected; patients on a kidney transplant waitlist, worse than expected.
- CMS gives no CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.: “Too few completed survey responses to report.”
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility and Patient survey (ICH CAHPS) - Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
| Measure | Rating |
|---|---|
| Star ratingCMS’s star rating for dialysis facilities, 1 to 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Patient survey ratingCMS star rating from its survey of the facility’s in-center hemodialysis patients (ICH CAHPS), 1 to 5 | Not rated |
How does it compare nearby?
- Of the 4 dialysis facilities CMS lists in Linn County, 4 have a star rating from CMS: 1 rated 5 of 5, 2 rated 4 of 5, 1 rated 3 of 5.
- CMS rates this one 3 of 5.
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
| Place | Star rating |
|---|---|
| Davita Cedar Rapids Dialysis | 4 |
| Davita Hawkeye Dialysis | 5 |
| Usrc Mercy Plaza Dialysis | 4 |
What the record doesn’t say
- CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for dialysis facilities, so none are shown.
- Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
- QCOR says it has no dialysis inspection reports after February 19, 2026, while it moves to a new system: a later inspection is not shown yet.
- CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for dialysis facilities.
- CMS publishes no owners file for dialysis facilities: the chain it lists is the only owner named.
Sources
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility (23ew-n7w9).
Released Jul 15, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Patient survey (ICH CAHPS) - Facility (59mq-zhts).
Released Jul 15, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies (ESRD_2567s_2018_to_2026YTD.xlsx).
Released Oct 14, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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From the facility
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Paid listing
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