Broadlawns Medical Center
Community Hospital · Des Moines, IA
On the floor
What the day-to-day looks like
- Setting
- Community Hospital
- Shifts hiring now
- Days 1 · Nights 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.
What stands out
New graduates
You can grow here through nursing clinical internships, preceptorships, and an RN Apprenticeship that pairs classroom work with on-the-job training and tuition support via Des Moines Area Community College.
Experienced nurses
You chart in Epic across a campus that runs acute care, ED, inpatient behavioral health, infusion, and primary/specialty clinics under one roof.
Moving here
Des Moines sits about 8% below the national cost of living, with a roughly 17-minute average commute and free parking on campus.
As of 2025Source: credenzahealth.com
More about working here
Experienced nurses
Full-time and part-time benefits include IPERS retirement, education assistance, PTO, health insurance, and a 529 college savings option.
As of 2025Source: credenzahealth.comExperienced nurses
The 2020 expansion added 20 private med-surg suites, a six-suite ICU, and a ten-suite birthing center, so those floors still feel relatively new.
New graduates
Nurses here are recognized through an active DAISY program, with six 2025 honorees and Spring 2026 recipients named publicly.
As of 2026Source: broadlawns.orgExperienced nurses
You will care for a safety-net population where most patients are on Medicaid or uninsured, and staff speak more than 40 languages in a typical week.
Starting out and growing here
- Preceptors and orientation
Offers nursing clinical internships, preceptorships, and clinical group rotations; moving to myClinicalExchange in Spring 2026.
As of 2025Source: broadlawns.org- Tuition support
RN Apprenticeship offers tuition support via Des Moines Area Community College partnership; Education Assistance listed in FT/PT benefits.
Working conditions
- Charting system
Epic
- Scheduling
Inpatient Behavioral Health Staff Nurse: Full Time 7A-7P, 36 hours/week; Infusion RN PRN Days 8a-5:30p.
As of 2025Source: credenzahealth.com
The city
Living in Des Moines, IA
Your RN salary stretches further in Des Moines—a cost-of-living index of 91.7 puts it about 8% below the national average. Picture post-shift runs around Gray's Lake, Saturday mornings at the Downtown Farmers' Market, pints in the Court Avenue district, and weekends unwinding in a Beaverdale Craftsman bungalow.
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- Metro price level · Des Moines area
- 8% below the national average
- BEA index 91.7 (100 = national)
- Median gross rent
- $1,090/mo
- rent and tenant-paid utilities
- Median household income
- $65,932/yr
- all local households, not nurse pay
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 days & nights
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.
Working here
Culture and working life
Themes from public reviews
Summaries of published reviews, with the original sources.
- Overall rating and recommend rate
- Glassdoor overall 3.4/5 from 68 reviews; 79% would recommend to a friend; 59% positive business outlook.
- Category ratings
- Work/life and diversity 3.8; compensation/benefits 3.4; culture 3.3; senior management lowest at 2.9.
- As of 2025Source: glassdoor.com
- RN BSN reviews
- Registered Nurse BSN subset much stronger: 4.9/5 from 4 reviews, 100% would recommend, 100% positive outlook.
- As of 2025Source: glassdoor.com
More review themes
- CEO approval
- 100% of Glassdoor reviewers approve of CEO Proctor Lureman.
- As of 2025Source: glassdoor.com
- Frontline hospital rating
- Breakroom frontline rating 7.7/10 based on 14 employees; ranked 220th of 1,051 rated hospitals.
- As of 2025Source: ziprecruiter.com
What to weigh
On Glassdoor, senior management scores 2.9—the lowest category—while the overall rating sits at 3.4 from 68 reviews.
The reality check
Before you decide
Quick facts
- Relationship
- Direct employer
- Roles last seen active
- Aug 26, 2026
- Website
- broadlawns.org ↗
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Open counts come from the live roles below. Source links show where unit details were reported.
- PACUDays 11 open
- Primary Care1 open
- PsychNights 11 open
Med-Surg
2020 expansion added 20 private medical-surgical patient suites on new hospital floor.
Source location unconfirmedSource: broadlawns.orgICU
2020 expansion added state-of-the-art ICU with six patient suites.
Source location unconfirmedSource: broadlawns.orgL&D / Birthing Center
2020 expansion added birthing center with ten labor, delivery, recovery and post-partum suites.
Source location unconfirmedSource: broadlawns.orgEmergency Department
ED staffed with board-certified physicians; advanced training in adult/pediatric life support and trauma care; treats medical, surgical, and psychiatric emergencies.
Source location unconfirmedSource: broadlawns.orgInpatient Behavioral Health
Staff Nurse Inpatient Behavioral Health full-time 7A-7P, 36 hours/week; campus has inpatient/outpatient mental health and crisis team.
Source location unconfirmedSource: credenzahealth.comOncology Infusion / Oncology Clinic
Infusion RN PRN Days 8a-5:30p under Clinic Manager and AVP of Outpatient Clinics; provides patient and telephone nursing support.
Source location unconfirmedSource: lensa.com
Open roles
Current openings at Broadlawns Medical Center
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