Iowa Nursing Home Quality Coalition

The Iowa Nursing Home Quality Coalition unites stakeholders across Iowa in a collaborative effort to enhance the quality of life for older adults in nursing homes. Through advocacy, education, and innovation, we are committed to empowering residents, families, and caregivers. We strive to create a sustainable and person-centered care model that ensures every older adult in Iowa is treated with dignity, respect, and compassion.

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Age-Friendly Health System Designations

Oaknoll, Iowa City
Briarwood, Iowa City
Harmony Marshalltown Nursing Home, Marshalltown
Lantern Park Specialty Care, Coralville
Parkview Manors, Wellman

Our Partners

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This map is an ongoing project, please stay tuned as we continue to add partner sites!

Article Highlight

Evidence-based practice without the eye roll

by Kim Bergen-Jackson

Evidence-based practice does not have to overwhelm staff or leaders. When improvement work is shared and supported, it becomes practical, sustainable and effective.

In long-term care, evidence-based practice often arrives wearing the face of quality improvement. It brings metrics, benchmarks, documentation tools and audit schedules. Staff recognize it as more boxes to check. Leaders recognize it as one more initiative layered onto already crowded agendas. The result is predictable. The phrase itself begins to carry weight before work begins.

This response is frequently labeled as resistance to quality, but it is more accurately a response to how improvement work is framed. When evidence is presented as a requirement rather than a shared problem-solving tool, it feels heavy. When quality initiatives are driven primarily by compliance, they can lose meaning at the bedside.

Coalitions change that experience. By shifting evidence-based practice from an isolated responsibility to a collective effort, coalitions make improvement work feel less like enforcement and more like progress.

Our Vision

To ensure every older adult in Iowa receives exceptional care and compassion, fostering a community where dignity, respect, and well-being are at the forefront. We aim to create an environment of continuous improvement in quality and service, where the voices of residents and their families are valued and integrated into our approach. Together, we strive for a future where every nursing home embodies the highest standards of care, promoting physical, emotional, and social well-being for all older Iowans and have the resources they need to provide that level of care.

Our Mission

Our mission is to advocate for and implement the highest standards of care in nursing homes across Iowa, ensuring that every older adult receives respectful, compassionate, and individualized care. We are dedicated to fostering an environment of continuous improvement through collaboration with residents, families, staff, and community partners. By championing the best practices and innovative solutions, we aim to enhance the quality of life and well-being of all older Iowans in nursing homes.

Iowa long-term care providers earned more national quality awards than any other state in the country this year.

Fifty-seven Iowa providers received the 2026 Bronze – Commitment to Quality Award from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), ranking Iowa first in the nation for the number of Bronze-level recipients.

The awards recognize long-term care providers that demonstrate a strong commitment to improving quality of care, resident experience and organizational performance.

Award recipients will be honored during IHCA’s 2026 Convention on Sept. 15, as well as the AHCA/NCAL Convention & Expo on Oct. 13 in Boston.

If your facility has achieved this recognition but is not listed, please submit your information to Ryleigh-Lind@uiowa.edu.

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