Nursing Homes · Medicare certified
Eldora Specialty Care
1510 22nd Street · Eldora, IA 50627 · 46 certified beds
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About Eldora Specialty Care
Eldora Specialty Care is a nursing home in Eldora, 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 4 citations, the most recent on December 11, 2025. CMS also lists 1 fine or payment denial against it. Nurse staffing averages 3.60 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 (4)
Records from December 2024 to December 2025.
December 11, 2025
Tag F0644Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Severity D: isolated, no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Corrected December 22, 2025.
December 11, 2025
Tag F0880Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Severity D: isolated, no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Corrected December 12, 2025.
December 11, 2025
Tag F0791Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Severity D: isolated, no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Corrected December 22, 2025.
December 12, 2024
Tag F0644Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Severity D: isolated, no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Corrected January 6, 2025.
Penalties (1)
June 15, 2026 · Fine
CMS recorded a civil money penalty of $6,030 against this nursing home on June 15, 2026.
Staffing
3.60 nurse hours per resident per day in Q2 2026, down from 3.73 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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