Individual Healthcare Provider
Mary Melissa Buchanan, CNA
Provider's NPPES record last updated: June 13, 2018
Overview
- Entity Type
- Individual Healthcare Provider
- NPI
- 1598278434
- Primary Specialty
- Hospice Care, Community Based
- Practice Location
- Urbandale, Iowa
- Sole Proprietor
- Yes
Federal Screening
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List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)
HHS Office of Inspector General
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- Source data
- September 10, 2026
- Records indexed
- 84,001
- Screened
- Sep 21, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC
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SAM.gov Exclusions
U.S. General Services Administration
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- Screened
- Not checked
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Specialties & Taxonomies
- Primary
Hospice Care, Community Based
Agencies
Definition to come...
Taxonomy code 251G00000X Skilled Nursing Facility
Nursing & Custodial Care Facilities
(1) A skilled nursing facility is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living. It meets any licensing or certification standards et forth by the jurisdiction where it is located. A skilled nursing facility may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation; (2) Provides non-acute medical and skilled nursing care services, therapy and social services under the supervision of a licensed registered nurse on a 24-hour basis.
Taxonomy code 314000000XIn Home Supportive Care
Agencies
An In Home Supportive Care Agency provides services in the patient's home with the goal of enabling the patient to remain at home. The services provided may include personal care services such as hands-on assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), e.g., eating, bathing, dressing, and bladder and bowel requirements; homemaker services and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), e.g., taking medications, shopping for groceries, laundry, housekeeping, and companionship; and/or supervision or cuing so that a person can perform tasks themselves.
Taxonomy code 253Z00000XHospice, Inpatient
Nursing & Custodial Care Facilities
A provider organization, or distinct part of the organization, which renders an interdisciplinary program providing palliative care, chiefly medical relief of pain and supporting services, which addresses the emotional, social, financial, and legal needs of terminally ill patients and their families where an institutional care environment is required for the patient.
Taxonomy code 315D00000XHome Health Aide
Nursing Service Related Providers
A person trained to assist public health nurses, home health nurses, and other health professionals in the bedside care of patients in their homes.
Taxonomy code 374U00000XNurse's Aide
Nursing Service Related Providers
(1) An unlicensed individual who is trained to function in an assistive role to the licensed nurse in the provision of patient/client activities as delegated by the nurse; (2) An individual trained (either on-the-job or through a formal course generally of less than one year) and experienced in performing patient or client-care nursing tasks that do not require the skills of a specialist, technician, or professional. Examples of tasks performed by nurses aides include changing clothes, diapers, and beds; assisting patients to perform exercises or personal hygiene tasks, and supporting communication or social interaction. Specific education and credentials are not required for this work.
Taxonomy code 376K00000XRespite Care
Respite Care Facility
Definition to come.
Taxonomy code 385H00000XRespite Care
Respite Care, Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities, Child
Respite Care Facility
A facility or distinct part of a facility that provides short term, residential care to children diagnosed with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities as respite for the regular caregivers.
Taxonomy code 385HR2060X
Provider-Reported License Information
- Hospice Care, Community Based (Iowa)
- 070780
- Skilled Nursing Facility (Iowa)
- 070780
- In Home Supportive Care (Iowa)
- 070780
- Hospice, Inpatient (Iowa)
- 070780
- Home Health Aide (Iowa)
- 070780
- Nurse's Aide (Iowa)
- 070780
- Respite Care (Iowa)
- 070780
- Respite Care (Iowa)
- 070780
Practice Locations
Practice Location
6101 Goodman Dr
Urbandale, Iowa 50322
Phone: (515) 230-6691
Record Information
- Enumeration Date
- November 14, 2017
- Provider's NPPES Record Last Updated
- June 13, 2018
- NPISignal NPPES Dataset
- August 2026
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