Fonteum Care Compare · Iowa · Cedar Rapids
Nursing homes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa: 10 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Cedar Rapids — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Cedar Rapids: 2.9 / 5
How Cedar Rapids compares
Cedar Rapids vs the Iowa state average
Overall ★ — this city
2.9
State avg 3.1 / 5
-0.2 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
3.6
State avg 3.6 / 5
in line with state
Facilities — this city
10
390 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 10 rated facilities above.
Where Cedar Rapids sits
All 10 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Cedar Rapids sit in Linn County, Iowa. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke'S Helen G Nassif Transitional Care Center
1420 Unitypoint Way · CCN 165389 · Non profit - Corporation
46 certified beds · 37.4 avg daily residents · 4.23 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey January 30, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Meth-Wick Health Center
1625 Brendelwood Drive · CCN 165542 · Non profit - Other
69 certified beds · 56.2 avg daily residents · 5.07 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey July 17, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
West Ridge Care Center
3131 F Avenue Nw · CCN 165567 · For profit - Corporation
60 certified beds · 51.7 avg daily residents · 4.12 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey January 29, 2026
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
The Gardens Of Cedar Rapids
5710 Dean Road Sw · CCN 165621 · For profit - Limited Liability company
40 certified beds · 35.4 avg daily residents · 4.00 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey January 22, 2026
4
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Living Center West
1050 4th Avenue Se · CCN 165278 · Non profit - Corporation
94 certified beds · 65.6 avg daily residents · 3.00 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 28, 2025
3
Overall
2
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Cottage Grove Place
2115 First Avenue Se · CCN 165322 · Non profit - Other
64 certified beds · 54.5 avg daily residents · 4.36 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey May 1, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Hallmar Village
8900 C Avenue Ne · CCN 165798 · Non profit - Church related
55 certified beds · 48.8 avg daily residents · 4.81 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey October 2, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Harmony Cedar Rapids
1940 First Avenue Ne · CCN 165017 · For profit - Limited Liability company
96 certified beds · 79.9 avg daily residents · 3.74 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey January 15, 2025
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Heritage Specialty Care
200 Clive Drive Sw · CCN 165310 · Non profit - Corporation
171 certified beds · 118 avg daily residents · 3.59 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey May 22, 2025
1
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Northbrook Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center
6420 Council Street Ne · CCN 165587 · For profit - Limited Liability company
130 certified beds · 83.5 avg daily residents · 3.47 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey August 14, 2025
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other Iowa cities with nursing homes
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Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.