Buchanan County, Iowa
County inventory for Buchanan County, Iowa is drawn from U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare / Home Health Compare (14,710 Medicare-certified nursing homes nationwide) with cost context from the private CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey - see our methodology. Home-health agency signature
CMS Home Health Compare maps no Medicare-certified home-health agencies into Buchanan County (lower tercile) beside 2 nursing homes - CareScout 2025 Iowa medians + CMS Five-Star.
County care plate
Sheet IA-BUCHANAN-IOWA · Buchanan, IA
NH-ONE · BEDS-FEW · STAR-MID · HH-NONE · RANK-MID · PHOTO-NONE · AL-MID · BOOK-FULL
- NH-ONE 2 homes
- BEDS-FEW 109 beds
- STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
- HH-NONE 0 agencies
- RANK-MID #1,432/2,851
- PHOTO-NONE No peer
- AL-MID $5,381/mo
- BOOK-FULL 2/2 NH · 0 HH
Stamps lead with home-health agency tercile (low) plus nursing-home inventory, licensed beds, Five-Star county average, corpus NH-count rank, photo-finish peer, and CareScout assisted-living medians.
What a thin home-health map shows for Buchanan County
Home-health coverage is thin in Buchanan County: no Medicare-certified agencies map in on the current CMS join beside 2 nursing homes and 109 licensed beds. CMS nursing-home stars average 3.0/5 on rated homes.
With a thinner CMS book, cost context matters more per facility: CareScout 2025 Iowa medians run assisted living $5,381/mo, semi-private nursing $9,277/mo, private nursing $10,038/mo, home health aide $7,836/mo, adult day $1,614/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.
Star counts across Buchanan County break as 1 at 2★, 1 at 4★. Ownership leans Government - County (50% of 2 homes). Named 4★+ examples include Buchanan County Health Center. Families typically weigh the ladder alongside bed size, ownership, distance, and specialty units before visiting.
Sources: CMS Nursing Home Compare + CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey. See methodology.
Nursing Homes in Buchanan County
2 CMS-certified homes in this county book, ordered by overall star rating.
| Facility | City | Rating | Beds | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan County Health Center | Independence | 4/5 | 39 | Government - County |
| Rehabilitation Centers of Independence West Campus | Independence | 2/5 | 70 | For profit - Corporation |
Read next when home-health coverage is thin
Continue on the Iowa elder-care overview or the highest-rated states ranking. Costs shown are Iowa state-level medians from CareScout 2025 (county-level cost data is not available).
Read our methodology - how CMS Care Compare and CareScout 2025 are joined for Buchanan County.