Nursing Homes · Medicare certified
Dunlap Specialty Care
1403 Harrison Road · Dunlap, IA 51529 · 46 certified beds
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About Dunlap Specialty Care
Dunlap Specialty Care is a nursing home in Dunlap, Iowa. Its capacity is 46 beds, below the Iowa median of 58 for nursing homes. It is run by a nonprofit operator and is part of Care Initiatives. It is Medicare certified. Its public inspection record shows 41 citations, the most recent on May 22, 2025. CMS also lists 2 fines or payment denials against it. Nurse staffing averages 3.68 hours per resident per day. Its public records were last updated in October 2026.
Public record
CMS Care Compare, updated October 2026
Certification
Medicare-certified.
Ratings
Overall
4.0Staffing
5.0Quality measures
5.0CMS Care Compare, October 2026.
Inspection history (41)
Records from May 2023 to May 2025.
May 4, 2023
Tag F0600Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Severity J: isolated, immediate jeopardy. Corrected June 14, 2023.
Penalties (2)
Total fines: $10,062
November 9, 2023 · Fine
CMS recorded a civil money penalty of $10,062 against this nursing home on November 9, 2023.
November 9, 2023 · Payment Denial
CMS recorded a Medicare/Medicaid payment denial for new admissions starting December 6, 2023, lasting 55 days (triggered by inspection on November 9, 2023).
Staffing
3.68 nurse hours per resident per day in Q2 2026, up from 3.61 in Q4 2025.
From the payroll records nursing homes file with CMS.
Ownership
Non profit
Part of Care Initiatives, a chain of 43 nursing homes.
Average CMS star ratings across the chain: 3.0 overall, 2.7 for health inspections, 3.9 for staffing, 3.7 for quality measures.
Typical cost
CareScout Cost of Care Survey, 2025
This provider's prices aren't public. Here is what the same care typically costs in Iowa.
What Medicaid pays nursing homes
This is what Iowa Medicaid pays a nursing home for each resident per day. It is not what a family pays privately, but it shows what the state treats as the cost of a day of care.
Median facility daily rate
$307.06per day
About $9,335 a month.
Median we calculated from the state's own facility rate file, January 1, 2026. Based on 381 facilities.
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