Linn County

Nursing homes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

6
rated one or two stars
5
with an immediate jeopardy finding
8 of 10
staffed below the research benchmark for the residents they have
$167,074
in federal fines since 2023 across these 10 homes

There are 10 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Cedar Rapids. 6 of them are rated one or two stars, the lowest two grades Medicare gives. Medicare grades inspections on a curve inside each state, so those stars are a rank inside Iowa, not a national score.

All 10 nursing homes in Cedar Rapids

Every Medicare-certified nursing home with a Cedar Rapids address. The labels on each card come from Medicare’s own records. What each one counts is below.

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Living Center West 1050 4th Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids 52403 · 94 beds Abuse or neglect citation3 immediate jeopardy findings5 findings of actual harm41% below expected staffing$72,070 in federal fines
2 out of 5
Harmony Cedar Rapids 1940 First Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids 52402 · 96 beds 2 immediate jeopardy findings2 findings of actual harm27% below expected staffing$10,509 in federal fines
1 out of 5
Heritage Specialty Care 200 Clive Drive SW, Cedar Rapids 52404 · 171 beds 1 immediate jeopardy finding5 findings of actual harm25% below expected staffing$14,365 in federal fines
1 out of 5
Northbrook Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 6420 Council Street NE, Cedar Rapids 52402 · 130 beds 1 immediate jeopardy finding2 findings of actual harm37% below expected staffing$38,787 in federal fines
1 out of 5
Cottage Grove Place 2115 First Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids 52402 · 64 beds 1 immediate jeopardy finding1 finding of actual harm14% below expected staffing
1 out of 5
Hallmar Village 8900 C Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids 52402 · 55 beds Abuse or neglect citation, no harm recorded3 findings of actual harm$11,960 in federal fines
2 out of 5
The Gardens Of Cedar Rapids 5710 Dean Road SW, Cedar Rapids 52404 · 40 beds Resident property citation, no harm recorded3 findings of actual harm14% below expected staffing$19,383 in federal fines
4 out of 5
St Luke's Helen G Nassif Transitional Care Center 1420 Unitypoint Way, Cedar Rapids 52402 · 46 beds 14% below expected staffing
5 out of 5
West Ridge Care Center 3131 F Avenue NW, Cedar Rapids 52405 · 60 beds 10% below expected staffing
5 out of 5
Meth-Wick Health Center 1625 Brendelwood Drive, Cedar Rapids 52405 · 69 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
5 out of 5

What the labels on each card mean

What a star means here

Medicare grades the inspection part of a star rating on a curve inside each state, so a star here is a rank against other Iowa homes, not a national score. Medicare withholds the rating altogether from homes on its Special Focus Facility list, so a withheld rating is a warning, not missing data.

Short on staffing

The home reports fewer nurse and aide hours per resident per day than a published research benchmark expects for the residents it actually has. The benchmark is not a Medicare figure: we work it out from the home's own Medicare case-mix score using the CASE formula (Harrington and others, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2025). It is not a legal limit, and there is no federal minimum number of nursing hours per resident per day.

Immediate jeopardy

The most serious result an inspection can have. It means inspectors found a resident was in danger of serious harm or death. A finding of actual harm is the level below that. Both are counts of inspection tags across the last three inspection cycles on record, not counts of separate incidents. Fines are federal penalties recorded between 2023 and 2025.

Abuse, counted two ways

There are two official measures and they do not agree. Medicare puts an abuse warning on a home's profile when abuse was found and a resident was harmed, or when it happened twice, and takes the warning off after a year. Separately, inspectors cite homes under the abuse, resident property and involuntary seclusion tags, and those findings stay on the record. A home can carry one label, both, or neither, so the two are labeled separately on every card.

The Special Focus list

Medicare's list of homes with a persistent record of serious problems. Each state gets a small number of places on it. A candidate is a home in line for one of those places.

Linn County has 18 Medicare-certified nursing homes. The 8 outside Cedar Rapids are in Marion (5), Hiawatha (1), Lisbon (1) and Mount Vernon (1).