13 of the 15 nursing homes that closed in Iowa last year were in rural communities

Marjorie Kruger visits with son Dan White in her new room at the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Waukon, Iowa. Kruger transferred to the Waukon facility in September 2022, because Good Samaritan was closing its Postville, Iowa, home, where she lived for six years. (TONY LEYS / KHN)