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 (252m-zfp9) 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 (yc9t-dgbk) that backs this page does notcarry star ratings or quality scores. Hospice quality is reported in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset (252m-zfp9), 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 (yc9t-dgbk) that backs this page carries identity, ownership, and certification only. Hospice quality lives in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset (252m-zfp9), 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 (PDC yc9t-dgbk), 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.