The administrator of an Iowa nursing home that dumped an alleged rape victim at a homeless shelter after evicting her from the care facility will be allowed to keep her license, a state board has ruled.
State officials say Amanda Nobles, the former administrator of Correctionville Specialty Care, accused the alleged rape victim of paying for sex before the woman was evicted from the home and dropped off at a homeless shelter with no notice and no medical records.
The nursing home employee who the resident accused of rape was the focus of sexual-impropriety complaints at two other Iowa care facilities. He was later convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor in a separate incident.
In July 2025, the Iowa Board of Nursing Home Administrators charged Nobles with violating an unspecified state or federal regulation or law related to practice of the profession of nursing home administration. Recently, Nobles and the board agreed to resolve the disciplinary case with a settlement agreement and final order that doesn’t disclose the nature of any of the alleged violations.
The public order indicates only that while Nobles was working as the nursing home administrator at Dunlap Specialty Care from October 2022 to January 2023, and at Correctionville Specialty Care from August 2023 to November 2023, the facilities were cited for unspecified “deficiencies, some of which were attributable” to Nobles.
As part of the settlement agreement, the board has allowed Nobles to keep her license subject to two years of probation. She will also be required to complete 10 hours of educational training on ethics and nursing home administration.
The agreement notes that Nobles “does not admit to any wrongdoing but agrees to enter into this settlement agreement to avoid the cost and uncertainty of a contested case hearing.”
Alleged rape victim evicted from facility
State inspection records and court filings show that in November 2023, the Correctionville home was cited for an incident in which a female resident of the home alleged that a staff member, Martell Guider, sent her a video of himself masturbating and then sexually assaulted her by forcing her to perform oral sex inside his car in the facility’s parking lot.
Guider was also accused of accepting money from the woman as payment for cigarettes he procured for her.
According to the inspectors’ written reports, the administrator of the home — which would have been Nobles, according to state inspectors and licensing board records — reported that after she saw evidence of the electronic payment from the resident to Guider, she “confronted” the resident and “accused” her of providing sexual favors to the employee in return for cigarettes — an allegation the resident denied.
According to the inspectors, the alleged victim of the sexual assault was “very upset by the allegations,” stating that she “would never do anything so vile.”
After the woman reported the alleged rape, Correctionville Specialty Care evicted the woman from the facility and dropped her off at a homeless shelter with no notice to the shelter and with no medical records, according to state inspectors.
Guider, a state-certified nursing assistant, was fired from the Correctionville home, but state inspectors say the facility’s parent company, Care Initiatives of West Des Moines, continued to provide work for him in other Iowa nursing homes that it operates.
Guider was never criminally charged in the Correctionville case. He was, however, criminally charged for his conduct while working at Kalona’s Pleasantview Home in 2024.
Allegations made at Audubon and Kalona homes
According to police and prosecutors, officials at Pleasantview Home confronted Guider sometime in January 2024 after multiple employees raised concerns that he was being inappropriate with a 17-year-old minor who was present at the home but not a resident.
Police allege that after his supervisors talked to him about the complaints, Guider shared an explicit photo of the minor with his employer. According to the police, Guider had threatened the minor to induce her to send him the photos via the social-messaging platform Snapchat.
Guider was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor by causing the minor to engage in a sex act, sexual exploitation through the use of photographs, possession of material depicting a minor engaged in sex, and first-degree harassment.
A jury convicted Guider of sexual exploitation by causing the minor to engage in a sex act. He was acquitted of the remaining charges and was sentenced to five years of probation.
In April 2023, prior to working at either the Correctionville or Kalona homes, Guider was working at Audubon’s Friendship Home when a female colleague filed a complaint with the state inspections department and police, alleging Guider had been making suggestive remarks to female coworkers, sent them photos of himself masturbating, had recorded video of one worker as she provided care for a resident, and had invited some of his female colleagues out to his car where he kept a bottle of Seagram’s Crown Royal.
Audubon police later acknowledged they didn’t pursue the matter, and the state inspections department acknowledged it rejected the complaint it had received, saying the situation was best addressed by management since it didn’t impact resident care.
Nobles has been an Iowa-licensed nursing home administrator for at least eight years. Some Board of Nursing Home Administrators records indicate she was granted her license in August 2009, while other board records give the date as March 2017.
