🛡️ Free for Families · No Spam Calls · No Referral Fees · Built on Official Records
🏠 Is this your community?
Families are searching for a community like yours right now. Make sure they find you.
Bethany Lutheran Home brings together skilled nursing and rehabilitation services in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where experienced staff focus on helping residents regain strength and independence. Our team provides compassionate medical care paired with therapy support designed for meaningful recovery.
Capacity
112 residents
Location
Council Bluffs, IA
Status
Listed in a public registry
Seven Elliott Street, Council Bluffs, Iowa 51503
From CMS Care Compare, the federal record every Medicare-certified nursing home is held to. Data as of September 1, 2026. Check it on Medicare.gov
At its most recent standard inspection, on October 2, 2025, state inspectors cited 9 health deficiencies (the Iowa average is 6.5).
Nurses and nurse aides spend 3 hours 59 minutes with each resident a day, about the same as the Iowa average.
Medicare fined Bethany Lutheran Home 2 times in the last three years, $27,771 in total.
| Measure | This home |
|---|---|
| Nurse and aide time per resident, per day | 3 hours 59 minutes |
| Registered nurse time per resident, per day | 18 minutesBelow the Iowa average |
| Nursing staff who left in the past year | 30%Below the Iowa average |
29 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
May 21, 2026 · Complaint investigation · 1 citation
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
October 2, 2025 · Standard inspection · 8 citations
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
2 fines totaling $27,771 in the last three years.
Seven Elliott StreetCouncil Bluffs, IA 51503
34 Northcrest Drive, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
Call for pricing
Prices not published
3000 Risen Son Blvd, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
Call for pricing
Prices not published
38 Pearl St, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
Call for pricing
Prices not published
State inspectors visited on October 2, 2025 and cited 9 health deficiencies, 3 of them from complaint investigations. The Iowa average is 6.5.
Nurses and aides spend 3 hours 59 minutes with each resident per day, including 18 minutes from registered nurses. 30% of nursing staff left over the past year.
Yes. Medicare fined Bethany Lutheran Home 2 times in the last three years, totaling $27,771.
Medicare covers up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period after a qualifying 3-day hospital stay — fully for the first 20 days, then with a daily copay. Long-term custodial stays are generally not covered.
A semi-private room averages about $7,900 per month nationally; private rooms cost more. Medicaid is the largest payer for long-term nursing home care.
Medicare rates nursing homes 1 to 5 stars on its Care Compare site. We don't repeat those stars here. Each nursing home page shows Medicare's underlying record instead: inspections, staffing and fines, with a link to check it on Medicare.gov.