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Buena Vista County, Iowa

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County inventory for Buena Vista 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

2 Medicare-certified home-health agencies map into Buena Vista County (upper tercile, ≥2) beside 1 nursing home - CareScout 2025 Iowa medians + CMS Five-Star.

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Sheet IA-BUENA-VISTA-IOWA · Buena Vista, IA

NH-ONE · BEDS-FEW · STAR-MID · HH-SMALL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-NONE · AL-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • NH-ONE 1 home
  • BEDS-FEW 93 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
  • HH-SMALL 2 HH
  • RANK-MID #2,098/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $5,381/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 1/1 NH · 2/2 HH

Stamps lead with home-health agency tercile (high) plus nursing-home inventory, licensed beds, Five-Star county average, corpus NH-count rank, photo-finish peer, and CareScout assisted-living medians.

What a dense home-health map shows for Buena Vista County

Home-health coverage is the standout for Buena Vista County: 2 Medicare-certified agencies (upper tercile) sit beside 1 nursing home and 93 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 Buena Vista County break as 1 at 3★. Ownership leans Non profit - Corporation (100% of 1 homes). Families typically weigh the ladder alongside bed size, ownership, distance, and specialty units before visiting.

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Sources: CMS Nursing Home Compare + CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey. See methodology.

$5,381
Assisted Living / mo
$9,277
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$7,836
Home Care / mo
3.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Buena Vista County

1 CMS-certified homes in this county book, ordered by overall star rating.

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
Methodist Manor Retirement Community Storm Lake 3/5 93 Non profit - Corporation

Home Health Agencies in Buena Vista County

Medicare-certified agencies from CMS Home Health Compare, zip-joined into this county inventory.

Agency City Quality Rating
Unitypoint at Home Storm Lake 4.5
Buena Vista County Public Health and Home Care Storm Lake 2.0

Read next for home-health-dense Buena Vista

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A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
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Home-health-dense path: Care-level and cost differences before you shortlist a CMS-certified facility.
Cost calculator for Buena Vista County planning
Home-health-dense path: State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

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 Buena Vista County.