Iowa home health care agencies: 128 Medicare-certified, source-cited quality data.
CMS Quality of Patient Care star rating, ownership type, and certification status for every Medicare-certified home health agency in Iowa — with explicit suppression flags where CMS withholds quality measures because of low patient volume.
Iowaquality & ownership at a glance
Aggregates below are scoped to Iowa’s 128 Medicare-certified agencies. Ownership type is self-reported to CMS; quality ratings refresh on the CMS Care Compare cadence.
Quality rating distribution & service coverage — Iowa
How Iowa’s rated agencies spread across the CMS Quality of Patient Care star scale, and the share offering each Medicare-reportable service line. Suppressed (unrated) agencies are excluded from the star distribution.
Quality of Patient Care star-rating distribution
Service-line coverage
| Service line | Agencies offering | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing care | 125 | 97.7% |
| Physical therapy | 114 | 89.1% |
| Occupational therapy | 111 | 86.7% |
| Speech pathology | 103 | 80.5% |
| Medical social services | 55 | 43.0% |
| Home health aide | 122 | 95.3% |
Home health agencies in Iowa
Top 25 of 128 by CMS Quality of Patient Care star rating (93 carry a published rating; the remainder are suppressed for low patient volume). The table is an unlinked state inventory.
| Agency | City | Ownership | Quality (of 5) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aveanna healthcare | SIOUX CITY | PROPRIETARY | 5 |
| Aveanna healthcare | CEDAR RAPIDS | PROPRIETARY | 5 |
| Aveanna healthcare | WEST DES MOINES | PROPRIETARY | 5 |
| Good samaritan society-home care | INDIANOLA | PROPRIETARY | 5 |
| Centerwell home health | HIAWATHA | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Centerwell home health | URBANDALE | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Mercyone siouxland home care | SIOUX CITY | NON-PROFIT | 4.5 |
| Unitypoint at home | STORM LAKE | NON-PROFIT | 4.5 |
| Above and beyond home health | MONTICELLO | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Angels care home health of iowa | COUNCIL BLUFFS | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| Elara caring | CENTERVILLE | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| Good samaritan society - home care | SPIRIT LAKE | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Mercyone des moines home care | DES MOINES | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Mercyone waterloo home health care | WATERLOO | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Mitchell county home health care/ public health | OSAGE | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| Pure health services, llc | CLARINDA | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| St anthony regional hospital and nursing home | CARROLL | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| Taylor county public health agency | BEDFORD | GOVERNMENT OPERATED | 4 |
| Unitypoint at home | DUBUQUE | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Unitypoint at home | URBANDALE | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Unitypoint at home | FORT DODGE | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| University of iowa health care medical center downtown home health | CORALVILLE | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Advanced home health care inc | BURLINGTON | PROPRIETARY | 3.5 |
| Angels care home health of iowa | DES MOINES | PROPRIETARY | 3.5 |
| Aveanna home health | COUNCIL BLUFFS | PROPRIETARY | 3.5 |
Iowa home health agencies — FAQ
- How many Medicare-certified home health agencies are in Iowa?
- 128 Medicare-certified home health agencies operate in Iowa as of the CMS Care Compare Home Health snapshot (2026-05-07). 93 carry a published CMS Quality of Patient Care star rating, averaging 3.05 of 5.
- What quality measures does Iowa home health data include?
- This page aggregates the CMS Quality of Patient Care star rating — CMS's published composite of the underlying OASIS outcome and process measures — plus the share of agencies offering each service line. The individual OASIS measure rates and HHCAHPS patient-experience scores live in separate CMS companion files and are not part of this identity-and-rating snapshot.
- Why do some agencies have no star rating?
- CMS suppresses the Quality of Patient Care star rating when an agency has fewer than the minimum number of completed quality episodes in the measurement window. Those agencies still appear in the list but are excluded from the state average rather than counted as zero.
- Where does this home health data come from and how current is it?
- The displayed fields come from the CMS Care Compare Home Health Care Agencies file, source-modified 2026-03-05. Record-level provenance can be null; cross-check a consequential agency record at Medicare.gov.
Compare other facility types
Supported Care Compare facility responses for Iowa and other states expose source-and-date fields where the module supplies them; individual fields may be absent or null.