Iowa hospices: 70 Medicare-certified, source-cited identity + ownership data.
Ownership type, certification date, and CMS region for every Medicare-certified hospice in Iowa. CAHPS Hospice experience-of-care measures live in a separate CMS dataset and are not included in this snapshot.
Ownership breakdown — Iowa
Hospice ownership concentration is the documented quality-of-care variable in policy literature; Fonteum surfaces the breakdown explicitly.
Hospice quality measures — what this page can and cannot show
Unlike nursing homes or home health, the CMS Hospice General Information file that backs this page does notcarry star ratings or quality scores. Hospice quality is reported in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset, and CMS suppressed publicly reported hospice quality measures during the documented May 2026 → February 2028 transition to the new HOPE assessment.
Rather than fabricate a rating, Fonteum renders the fields that genuinely exist for every Iowa hospice: CMS-certified identity, ownership type, CMS region, and Medicare certification date. When the HOPE-based measures publish, they will land here traced to their source.
Hospices in Iowa
First 25 of 70 Medicare-certified hospices. Select a hospice to open its per-facility provenance page.
| Facility | City | Ownership | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everystep | DES MOINES | Other | 11/02/1983 |
| Avera at home | ESTHERVILLE | Non-Profit | 02/06/1984 |
| Mercyone north iowa hospice | MASON CITY | For-Profit | 02/12/1985 |
| Cedar valley hospice | WATERLOO | For-Profit | 03/01/1985 |
| Iowa river hospice | MARSHALLTOWN | Non-Profit | 02/28/1986 |
| Mercyone des moines hospice | DES MOINES | Non-Profit | 05/16/1986 |
| Iowa city hospice | IOWA CITY | Non-Profit | 07/09/1987 |
| Mary greeley hospice services | AMES | Government | 10/21/1987 |
| Mahaska health partnership hospice services | OSKALOOSA | Government | 03/22/1989 |
| Hospice of mercy | HIAWATHA | Non-Profit | 10/03/1989 |
| Hospice inc serving davis & wapello counties | OTTUMWA | Other | 11/13/1989 |
| Hospice of dubuque | DUBUQUE | Non-Profit | 02/24/1990 |
| Hospice of the heartland | ALGONA | Government | 02/15/1990 |
| Unitypoint hospice | CEDAR RAPIDS | Other | 06/21/1990 |
| Lee county health department | FORT MADISON | Government | 10/15/1990 |
| Sioux center health home care and hospice | SIOUX CENTER | Non-Profit | 10/24/1991 |
| Mercyone genesis | BETTENDORF | Non-Profit | 02/13/1992 |
| Gundersen palmer lutheran hosp and clinics-hospice | WEST UNION | Non-Profit | 03/19/1992 |
| Sanford home health and hospice sheldon | SHELDON | Non-Profit | 08/19/1992 |
| Mercy home care and hospice-clinton | CLINTON | Non-Profit | 11/30/1992 |
| Hospice of palo alto county | EMMETSBURG | Government | 09/07/1993 |
| Aseracare hospice | COUNCIL BLUFFS | For-Profit | 09/28/1993 |
| Avera @ home of spencer hospital | SPENCER | Government | 11/16/1993 |
| Cherokee regional hospice | CHEROKEE | Non-Profit | 11/01/1994 |
| Hospice of pella, the comfort house | PELLA | Non-Profit | 02/12/1995 |
Iowa hospices — FAQ
- How many Medicare-certified hospices are in Iowa?
- 70 Medicare-certified hospices operate in Iowa as of the CMS Hospice General Information snapshot (2026-05-07). 30.0% are for-profit — ownership concentration is the documented quality-of-care variable in the hospice policy literature.
- Does Fonteum show hospice star ratings for Iowa?
- No — and that is an honest data gap, not an omission. The CMS Hospice General Information file that backs this page carries identity, ownership, and certification only. Hospice quality lives in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset, and CMS suppressed publicly reported hospice quality measures during the May 2026 → February 2028 transition to the new HOPE assessment. Fonteum renders the fields that exist rather than fabricating a rating.
- What can I learn from this hospice data today?
- For every Iowa hospice you get its CMS-certified identity, ownership type, CMS region, and Medicare certification date — enough to map the ownership landscape and track when each provider entered the program. Each row links to a per-hospice provenance page.
- Where does this hospice data come from and how current is it?
- All columns trace to the CMS Hospice General Information dataset, source-modified 2026-01-08. Fonteum redistributes the public-domain CMS file unaltered; cross-check any hospice at Medicare.gov.
Compare other facility types
Every Fonteum Care Compare module carries the same per-facility provenance for Iowa and the rest of the country.