St Luke’S Helen G Nassif Transitional Care Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1998-04-01. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (319) 366-8701 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

St Luke’S Helen G Nassif Transitional Care Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 5 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (5★), Staffing (4★), and Quality of Resident Care (4★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 79.1/100, placing it #4075 of 14703 facilities nationally and #103 of 390 in Iowa. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at St Luke’S Helen G Nassif Transitional Care Center receives a reported average of 4 hours 9 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 10 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 32 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 26 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 37 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 4 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 51.3%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 3 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $1,973. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 0 fine(s) totaling $0, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 0. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 6.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, St Luke’S Helen G Nassif Transitional Care Center ranks 4075th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 79.1/100), placing it in the above average nationwide. Within IA, it ranks 103rd out of 390 nursing homes. In Cedar Rapids, it ranks 3rd out of 10 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 1st of 5. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #3,969 nationally and RN hours rank #1,218 nationally (#22 in IA). Our composite quality score of 79.1/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Cedar Rapids, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/iowa/cedar-rapids/