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Broadlawns Medical Center

Community Hospital · Des Moines, Iowa 50314

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Broadlawns Medical Center workplace

On the floor

What the day-to-day looks like

Setting
Community Hospital
Shifts hiring now
Per-diem 1

Benefits

FT/PT benefits list IPERS retirement, education assistance, employee health and wellness, PTO, free parking, health insurance, supplemental insurance, and 529 college savings. RN Apprenticeship offers tuition support through a DMACC partnership when applications are open.

The city

Living in Des Moines, IA

Des Moines offers nurses an affordable Midwest lifestyle with housing and utilities below national averages. The highly walkable Rowan neighborhood features affordable rents and is popular among retirees. Iowa's capital blends urban convenience with a relaxed pace, ideal for healthcare professionals seeking lower living costs without sacrificing accessibility.

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Metro price level · Des Moines area
91.7
8% below the national average
Median gross rent
$1,090/mo
rent and tenant-paid utilities

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024

Who they are

You walk into a safety-net nonprofit hospital in Des Moines that has been open since 1924. The campus holds the acute-care hospital, primary and specialty clinics, urgent care, ED, lab, radiology, dentistry, and inpatient and outpatient mental health with a crisis team.

  • Community Hospital · Des Moines
  • Hiring per-diem
More about Broadlawns Medical Center

Most of the patients you will see are on Medicaid or uninsured, and staff move through more than 40 languages in a normal week. If you land on med-surg, ICU, or labor and delivery, you are working floors shaped by the 2020 expansion—twenty private med-surg suites, a six-suite ICU, and a ten-suite birthing center. The ED runs with board-certified physicians and handles medical, surgical, and psychiatric emergencies. Charting is in Epic. Full-time and part-time packages list IPERS, education assistance, PTO, health insurance, free parking, and a 529 option. For learning, Broadlawns runs nursing clinical internships, preceptorships, and group rotations, and it built Iowa’s first RN Apprenticeship with DMACC tuition support—though apprenticeship applications are on hold right now. Glassdoor sits at 3.4 overall from 68 reviews, with senior management the soft spot at 2.9; the small RN BSN slice reads much warmer. CEO Proctor Lureman has full approval on that same site.

Mission emphasizes accessible, cost-effective, high-quality care for all, including people on Medicaid and the uninsured.

Why nurses stay

How they describe the culture

safety-netaccessible carecommunity hospitalpreceptorshipDAISYmultilingualEpiceducation assistance

What nurses say in reviews

Glassdoor overall 3.4/5 from 68 reviews with 79% willing to recommend; work/life and diversity 3.8, compensation/benefits 3.4, culture 3.3, senior management 2.9. A small Registered Nurse BSN subset scores 4.9/5 from 4 reviews with 100% recommend. Breakroom frontline rating 7.7/10 from 14 employees. CEO Proctor Lureman has 100% Glassdoor approval.

The good

  • 2020 expansion brought private med-surg suites, a six-suite ICU, and a ten-suite birthing center
  • Epic EHR across the campus
  • FT/PT benefits include IPERS, education assistance, PTO, free parking, and health insurance
  • Nursing clinical internships, preceptorships, and RN Apprenticeship tuition support through DMACC

The hard parts

  • Senior management rates 2.9 on Glassdoor, the lowest category
  • Overall Glassdoor score is a mixed 3.4/5 from 68 reviews
  • RN Apprenticeship applications are currently on hold
  • No published nurse-to-patient ratios in available facts
I came for the sign-on bonus. I stayed because on my hardest night, my whole team stayed with me.
A nurse, on why they stayed

The reality check

Before you decide

Quick facts

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Jul 23, 2026
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