How Medicare rates them
- 5 stars 2
- 4 stars 0
- 3 stars 0
- 2 stars 1
- 1 star 0
3 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Des Moines
Judson Park Health Center
5 of 5 stars23620 Marine View Drive South · (206) 824-4000
Ownership: Non profit - Corporation · Humangood
- Certified beds
- 96
- Staffing rating
- 5
- Quality measure rating
- 5
- Flagged by CMS for abuse
- N
- Health inspection rating
- 3
- Average residents per day
- 83.8
Wesley Homes Des Moines Health Center
5 of 5 stars826 South 218th Street · (206) 824-3663
Ownership: Non profit - Church related
- Certified beds
- 148
- Staffing rating
- 4
- Quality measure rating
- 5
- Flagged by CMS for abuse
- N
- Health inspection rating
- 4
- Average residents per day
- 67.9
Puget Sound Transitional Care
2 of 5 stars2800 South 224th Street, · (206) 824-0600
Ownership: For profit - Corporation · The Ensign Group
- Certified beds
- 165
- Staffing rating
- 3
- Quality measure rating
- 4
- Flagged by CMS for abuse
- N
- Health inspection rating
- 2
- Average residents per day
- 81.1
Common questions
How many nursing homes are there in Des Moines?
Medicare lists 3 certified nursing homes in Des Moines. 3 carry a CMS star rating and 2 are rated 4 or 5 stars.
What does the CMS star rating actually measure?
Medicare combines three things into one overall rating: state health inspection results, staffing levels reported from payroll data, and clinical quality measures. It is a federal rating, not our assessment, and a facility can be rated well on one and poorly on another.
Does Medicare or Medicaid pay for this?
Every facility listed here is Medicare-certified. What Medicare pays for and for how long depends on the type of care and your situation, so confirm coverage with the facility and with your plan before you commit.
Where this data comes from
Ratings and quality measures on this page come from CMS Care Compare, Nursing Home Provider Information, published August 2026. They are Medicare's assessments, not ours. We report the federal figures as published, with the file's own date, and we do not compute a score of our own or rank one facility against another.
CMS suppresses some measures for small facilities, so a blank is missing data rather than a poor result. Ratings are refreshed each quarter from the source file. Confirm anything that matters directly with the facility before you act on it.
Compiled and maintained by the Black Health editorial team. Found something wrong? Tell us and we will check it against the source.