---
title: Home-health agencies in Iowa — CMS quality + recovery outcomes
source: CMS Home Health Care Compare
sourceUrl: https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/
state: IA
agencies: 128
rated: 93
---

# Home-health agencies in Iowa

All **128** Medicare-certified agencies (93 CMS-rated). Home health is about recovery — will the agency get your parent walking, breathing, and managing on their own again after a hospital stay.

## How to choose, in two steps

1. **Use the CMS quality star to find the strong agencies.** It is risk-adjusted and only assigned to agencies with enough patients to judge fairly — the trustworthy ranking.
2. **Then read the recovery rate that matches your situation:** a fall / joint surgery → *mobility*; a heart or lung condition → *breathing*; a complex medication regimen → *meds*; general post-hospital recovery → *self-care*.

Read the rates as a signal, not a verdict: they are risk-adjusted, but a single rate can swing for a smaller agency, and this public data has no patient-count. The star already accounts for volume. National medians for reference: mobility 87.47%, breathing 90.46%, meds 86.3%, self-care 90.07%.

## Top CMS-rated agencies in Iowa

- **AVEANNA HEALTHCARE** (SIOUX CITY) — 5★ · mobility 99% · breathing 93% · meds 98% · self-care 100%
- **AVEANNA HEALTHCARE** (CEDAR RAPIDS) — 5★ · mobility 98% · breathing 93% · meds 100% · self-care 100%
- **AVEANNA HEALTHCARE** (WEST DES MOINES) — 5★ · mobility 98% · breathing 96% · meds 100% · self-care 100%
- **GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY-HOME CARE** (INDIANOLA) — 5★ · mobility 100% · breathing 100% · meds 100% · self-care 100%
- **ABOVE AND BEYOND HOME HEALTH** (MONTICELLO) — 4★ · mobility 90% · breathing 93% · meds 87% · self-care 91%
- **ANGELS CARE HOME HEALTH OF IOWA** (COUNCIL BLUFFS) — 4★ · mobility 93% · breathing 95% · meds 97% · self-care 93%
- **CENTERWELL HOME HEALTH** (HIAWATHA) — 4★ · mobility 96% · breathing 91% · meds 97% · self-care 98%
- **CENTERWELL HOME HEALTH** (URBANDALE) — 4★ · mobility 93% · breathing 95% · meds 100% · self-care 94%
- **ELARA CARING** (CENTERVILLE) — 4★ · mobility 89% · breathing 96% · meds 88% · self-care 93%
- **GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY - HOME CARE** (SPIRIT LAKE) — 4★ · mobility 89% · breathing 96% · meds 88% · self-care 91%
- **MERCYONE DES MOINES HOME CARE** (DES MOINES) — 4★ · mobility 90% · breathing 95% · meds 89% · self-care 93%
- **MERCYONE SIOUXLAND HOME CARE** (SIOUX CITY) — 4★ · mobility 94% · breathing 99% · meds 92% · self-care 97%
- **MERCYONE WATERLOO HOME HEALTH CARE** (WATERLOO) — 4★ · mobility 85% · breathing 96% · meds 87% · self-care 91%
- **MITCHELL COUNTY HOME HEALTH CARE/ PUBLIC HEALTH** (OSAGE) — 4★ · mobility 99% · breathing 92% · meds 90% · self-care 98%
- **PURE HEALTH SERVICES, LLC** (CLARINDA) — 4★ · mobility 75% · breathing 99% · meds 96% · self-care 98%
- **ST ANTHONY REGIONAL HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOME** (CARROLL) — 4★ · mobility 88% · breathing 100% · meds 87% · self-care 95%
- **TAYLOR COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY** (BEDFORD) — 4★ · mobility 76% · breathing 100% · meds 98% · self-care 100%
- **UNITYPOINT AT HOME** (DUBUQUE) — 4★ · mobility 90% · breathing 90% · meds 87% · self-care 92%
- **UNITYPOINT AT HOME** (URBANDALE) — 4★ · mobility 89% · breathing 91% · meds 88% · self-care 92%
- **UNITYPOINT AT HOME** (FORT DODGE) — 4★ · mobility 92% · breathing 92% · meds 88% · self-care 94%
- **UNITYPOINT AT HOME** (STORM LAKE) — 4★ · mobility 93% · breathing 93% · meds 93% · self-care 94%
- **UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HEALTH CARE MEDICAL CENTER DOWNTOWN HOME HEALTH** (CORALVILLE) — 4★ · mobility 87% · breathing 91% · meds 86% · self-care 93%
- **ADVANCED HOME HEALTH CARE INC** (BURLINGTON) — 3★ · mobility 89% · breathing 93% · meds 88% · self-care 85%
- **ANGELS CARE HOME HEALTH OF IOWA** (DES MOINES) — 3★ · mobility 91% · breathing 92% · meds 94% · self-care 93%
- **AVEANNA HOME HEALTH** (COUNCIL BLUFFS) — 3★ · mobility 86% · breathing 90% · meds 90% · self-care 93%

_…and 68 more rated agencies + 35 not-yet-rated. Full list + every agency's page at the live atlas._

## What this is — and is not

Published CMS Home Health Care Compare data, arranged to compare. It **informs and compares**; it does **not** rate, rank, or recommend an agency for an individual's needs, and carries no hospital-readmission measure. Confirm at https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/ · Structured data: /care/home-health/in/ia.jsonld