Broadlawns Medical Center
Community Hospital · Des Moines, Iowa 50314
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.
Browse roles in Des Moines- 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
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.”
The reality check
Before you decide
Quick facts
- Relationship
- Direct employer
- Roles last seen active
- Jul 23, 2026
- Website
- broadlawns.org ↗
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