Home health & hospice in Des Moines

How many home health agencies and hospices are licensed in Des Moines?

DIAL's roster shows 4 licensed home health agencies and 5 hospices or hospice houses with Des Moines office addresses in the four areas we map; many more serve the city from West Des Moines and Urbandale.

Which hospices and hospice houses are in Des Moines?

DIAL's roster shows these hospice programs and inpatient hospice houses with Des Moines addresses: Everystep, MercyOne Hospice, EveryStep Bright - Kavanagh House, EveryStep Kavanagh House, UnityPoint Hospice - Taylor House.

Medicare's hospice benefit covers hospice in a patient's home, an assisted living program or a nursing facility. Ask each hospice about after-hours response and where inpatient care happens when symptoms cannot be managed at home; the metro's inpatient hospice houses are in Des Moines.

What does in-home care cost in Des Moines?

No Des Moines figure is published; CareScout's 2025 Iowa median for a non-medical home care worker is about $41 an hour, about $7,836 a month at 44 hours a week, while Medicare-covered home health visits cost an eligible patient nothing.

The Elderly Waiver can pay for homemaker, home health aide, consumer-directed attendant care and other services at home for eligible Iowans 65 and older; Aging Resources of Central Iowa ((515) 255-1310) explains how to apply.

How do we choose a Des Moines home health agency?

Ask whether the agency is Medicare-certified for the services ordered, how soon it can start after discharge, how often the nurse and therapists will come, and who answers the phone after hours; the physician's order defines what Medicare covers.

Every licensed agency appears on the home health and hospice roster. An agency that already works with your parent's doctors can make the first weeks after discharge smoother.