Hearth Record

Nursing homes in Iowa

All 390 in one list

Every one on the record by city and county: open a place for its list, which you can filter by what each record says.

390 nursing homes in 249 cities and towns and 99 counties. From CMS’s monthly release of Oct 28, 2026. With Iowa’s own list of the nursing homes it licenses that Medicare doesn’t certify.

Also listed

DIAL’s Health Facilities database holds 390 licensed nursing homes. 387 of them are in CMS’s files (by Medicare number, name or address) and shown from CMS’s records; 3 are listed here as licensed by Iowa and not Medicare-certified.

The biggest cities and towns

By how many nursing homes each holds
  1. Des Moines 12 Polk County
  2. Cedar Rapids 10 Linn County
  3. Dubuque 8 Dubuque County
  4. Davenport 7 Scott County
  5. Sioux City 6 Woodbury County
  6. Waterloo 6 Black Hawk County
  7. Cedar Falls 5 Black Hawk County
  8. Council Bluffs 5 Pottawattamie County
  9. Marion 5 Linn County

The biggest counties

By how many nursing homes each holds
  1. Polk County 30
  2. Linn County 18
  3. Black Hawk County 12
  4. Dubuque County 12
  5. Scott County 11
  6. Woodbury County 9
  7. Dallas County 8
  8. Johnson County 8
  9. Story County 8

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Source:

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing (DIAL), Health Facilities Division, Health Facilities database: Entity Search. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated weekly.

How to read a record

Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

An example record, made up for this guide

An example nursing home

Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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