Nursing home takes regulators to court over resident’s eviction

By: Clark Kauffman

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: June 4, 2026

Words: 649

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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An Iowa nursing home is challenging the state’s position that it unfairly evicted a resident from the facility for using marijuana.

In a lawsuit filed recently in Polk County District Court, Ankeny Health Care Enterprises, which operates the 91-resident Sunny View Care Center in Ankeny, says it evicted, or involuntary discharged, a resident of the home earlier this year.

The company alleges that on Jan. 16, 2026, the woman used marijuana at the care center …

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