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Verified hospice & palliative care in
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Hospice & Palliative Care serving Iowa. Before a listing appears here, we check the provider's phone, business address, and working website against the provider's own site, and MORTL writes the standard listing description from it. Sponsored Pro and Premium cards may include a provider-written bio.

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Cremation waiting periodNo statutory wait
Cremation permitRequired
Death certificate filingWithin 3 days
First certified copy$20
Small estate limit$200,000
Transfer-on-death deedNot available
State estate taxNone
Donor registryIowa Donor Network

Verified in Iowa so far: 40 financial advisors, 25 hospice & palliative care, 4 funeral homes, 1 estate attorney.

Every figure here comes from MORTL's Iowa guide, which cites the statute or the state agency behind it. Read the Iowa guide for the rest of it: the cremation and burial rules in full, probate and the small-estate threshold, who inherits when there's no will, advance directives, and the estate tax.

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25 providers

Before a provider is listed, MORTL checks their phone, business address, and working website. MORTL writes standard listing descriptions from that site. Sponsored Pro and Premium cards may include a provider-written bio. Provider information can change after listing. MORTL doesn’t verify every license, disciplinary history, availability, or quality. Check credentials, pricing, and availability directly before hiring.
✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Estherville, Iowa

Avera At Home

Iowa home health provider offering in-home services, home therapy services, home medical equipment, and hospice care in the Estherville area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Onawa, Iowa

Burgess Health Center

Iowa health center offering hospice services as part of its home health and medical service lines in the Onawa area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Greenfield, Iowa

Care Initiatives

Iowa hospice provider offering end-of-life hospice care services, including personal physicians, counselors, and volunteer support, in the Greenfield area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Waterloo, Iowa

Cedar Valley Hospice, Inc.

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice care, palliative care, dementia care, grief support, and confidential HIV case management, including inpatient and respite care at a home-like facility, in the Waterloo area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Ankeny, Iowa

Compassus Of Iowa I, LLC

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice care, palliative care, and grief support services, including eligibility and advance care planning resources, in the Ankeny area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Amana, Iowa

Essence Of Life LLC

Iowa hospice provider offering end-of-life care, palliative care, and spiritual, social, and emotional support for patients and families in the Amana area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Council Bluffs, Iowa

Hillcrest Hospice LLC

Iowa hospice provider offering pain and symptom management, skilled nursing visits, medication and equipment, emotional and spiritual support, and bereavement counseling, including continuous care, veteran support, and pet visits, in the Council Bluffs area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Des Moines, Iowa

Hospice Of Central Iowa

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice care, home health care, community health services, and grief and bereavement support, including children's grief services through Amanda the Panda, in the Des Moines area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Dubuque, Iowa

Hospice Of Dubuque

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice care, palliative care, veterans program, and bereavement support services, including pain and symptom management and caregiver education, in the Dubuque area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Maquoketa, Iowa

Hospice Of Jackson County,Inc

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice care, personal care, homemaker and housekeeping assistance, in-home meal preparation, and support groups in the Maquoketa area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Mason City, Iowa

Hospice Of North Iowa

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice care, in-home and assisted living nursing facility services, support groups, memorial services, and bereavement visits, including hospice admissions coordination, in the Mason City area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Sioux City, Iowa

Hospice Of The Midwest, LLC

Iowa hospice provider offering nursing care, pain and symptom management, personal hospice care, bereavement programs, medical social and spiritual services, and medical equipment and pharmacy coordination, including a We Honor Veterans program, in the Sioux City area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Washington, Iowa

Hospice Of Washington County Inc

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice and palliative care, bereavement counseling, spiritual care, music therapy, and massage therapy, including support for patients and families facing life-limiting illness, in the Washington area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Council Bluffs, Iowa

Hospice Preferred Choice, Inc.

Iowa hospice provider offering pain management, hospice aide, social work, skilled nursing, volunteer companionship, chaplain spiritual support, and bereavement services, including specialty programs for dementia and end-stage heart failure, in the Council Bluffs area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City Hospice, Inc.

Iowa nonprofit hospice provider offering hospice care, bereavement support and counseling, specialty programs, and advance care planning resources, including care regardless of ability to pay, in the Iowa City area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Winterset, Iowa

Madison County Memorial Hospital

Iowa hospital offering hospice care as part of its inpatient hospital services in the Winterset area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Pella, Iowa

Pella Regional Health Center

Iowa health center offering hospice, home health, and end of life care services in the Pella area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Cresco, Iowa

Regional Health Services Of Howard County

Iowa hospice provider offering end-of-life care through Howard County Community Hospice, including physical, emotional, spiritual, and social support services, in the Cresco area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
West Des Moines, Iowa

Sacred Encounter Hospice Central Iowa, LLC

Iowa hospice provider offering routine home care, respite care, general inpatient care, and continuous care, including pain management and emotional and spiritual support for patients and families, in the West Des Moines area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Sheldon, Iowa

Sanford Health Network

Iowa hospital offering hospice, palliative care, and symptom management services, including general surgery, women's health, and vascular care, in the Sheldon area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Harlan, Iowa

Shelby County Chris A Myrtue Memorial Hospital

Iowa hospital offering home health, hospice, public health, and community health services, including care coordination through its Community Health location, in the Harlan area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Council Bluffs, Iowa

St Croix Hospice LLC

Iowa hospice provider offering clinical care, family support, bereavement support, and specialty programs such as the Lighthouse End-of-Life Planning Program, North Star Dementia Program, and Voyage Vigil Program, in the Council Bluffs area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Suncrest Hospice Cedar Rapids, LLC

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice care, pain and symptom management, medical equipment and medication delivery, hospice aide services, massage therapy, music therapy, bereavement counseling, and respite care in the Cedar Rapids area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
West Des Moines, Iowa

Suncrest Hospice, LLC

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice care, home health care, and palliative care, including pain and symptom management, durable medical equipment, complementary therapies, and bereavement support, in the West Des Moines area.

✦Hospice & Palliative Care
Monticello, Iowa

Trinity Home Health Services

Iowa hospice provider offering hospice care, bereavement support, and home care services, including grief support groups and remembrance events, in the Monticello area.

About This Directory

How provider listings work.

Providers come from public sources and provider submissions. Before a listing goes live, MORTL checks the provider's phone, business address, and working website. MORTL writes standard listing descriptions from that site. Sponsored Pro and Premium cards may include a provider-written bio. A provider without a working website isn’t listed.

A listing isn’t a recommendation, endorsement, guarantee, or referral.

MORTL checks a license only for estate attorneys: a lawyer the firm names has to show as active on the state’s official lawyer lookup before the listing goes up. MORTL doesn’t verify any provider’s disciplinary history, availability, or quality of service. Provider information can change after a listing is added.

Before hiring any provider, check their license with the state licensing board or professional authority, get pricing in writing, and confirm availability directly.

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Worked with a funeral home, grief counselor, hospice, financial advisor, or death doula worth finding? Tell us who they are. It takes a minute and it's free.

Every suggestion gets the same check as the rest of the directory: we confirm the provider's phone and address against their own website before anything is listed.

Death doulas aren’t in the directory because no verifiable registry exists to check them against. You can still suggest one; submissions stay open.

Free. Before listing, we check every suggested provider's phone and address against their own website. Listing in this directory isn’t an endorsement by MORTL.

For Providers

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MORTL readers are planning ahead: people getting their wills, directives, and funeral wishes in order before a crisis. Listing here puts you in front of them before they need you.

A standard listing in the MORTL directory costs nothing, now or later. We list funeral directors, grief counselors, financial advisors, and hospice providers. Founding providers get in before the category fills up.

Death doulas can apply, but don’t appear in the directory yet: no verifiable registry exists to check a doula listing against.

✓Operates in one of our listed provider categories
✓Has a working website that shows your phone and address
✓Transparent about how you work and what you charge

A listing in the MORTL directory isn’t a recommendation, endorsement, guarantee, or referral. Before hiring any provider, verify credentials directly with the appropriate state licensing board.

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Provider Directory Disclosure: A listing in the MORTL directory isn’t a recommendation, endorsement, guarantee, or referral. Before listing, MORTL checks each provider's phone, business address, and working website. MORTL writes standard descriptions from that site; sponsored Pro and Premium cards may include a provider-written bio. MORTL doesn’t verify every license, disciplinary history, availability, or quality. Check credentials directly before hiring. Read our Provider Review Policy →