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Offers primary care including family medicine, internal medicine, infectious disease management, pediatric care, OB/GYN services, prenatal and postpartum coordinated care with labor and delivery, immunizations and preventative screenings, and chronic care.

Hospital.  Offers inpatient and outpatient services, emergency care, wound clinic, radiology, and inpatient rehabilitation services.

Works to build a business community through effective communication, stakeholder engagement, and the promotion of tourism development. Offers strategies for marketing and enhancing local tourism, including initiatives to support the development or expansion of tourist facilities such as cultural or historic sites, scenic areas, theme parks, entertainment venues, and educational or cultural centers.

Information about city and county offices, and their locations within the building.

Offices include:

- Board of Commissioners (402) 441-7447.

- Budget and Fiscal (402) 441-7447.

- Clerk of the District Court (402) 441-7328.

- Mental Health Crisis Center (402) 441-8276.

- Cooperative Extension (402) 441-7180.

- Corrections (402) 441-1900.

- County Assessor (402) 441-7463.

- County Attorney (402) 441-7321.

- County Clerk (402) 441-7484.

- County Engineer (402) 441-7681.

- County Sheriff (402) 441-6500.

- County Treasurer (402) 441-7425.

- Election Commissioner (402) 441-7311.

- Emergency Management (402) 441-7441.

- Human Services (402) 441-4944.

- Public Defender (402) 441-7631.

- Records and Info Management (402) 441-6065.

- Register of Deeds (402) 441-7463.

- Safety and Training (402) 441-6510.

- Veterans Service Center (402) 441-7361.

- Weed Control Authority (402) 441-7817.

Offers low-income immigrants and refugees a safe place to seek free legal assistance for immigration and naturalization issues. The attorneys and DOJ accredited representatives provide counsel for immigrants and refugees who are eligible for legal status in the United States. Counsel and advice for new clients is available at monthly legal clinics in 7 locations in Iowa: Ames, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Ottumwa, Decorah, Marshalltown and Storm Lake. The attorneys or DOJ accredited representatives may represent clients beyond the intake clinics if they are eligible for immigration benefits and there is a capacity to assist them. 

Offers a program designed to empower young entrepreneurs to develop entrepreneurial skills to launch their own businesses. Students receive mentorship from business professionals from the Des Moines Metro area where they obtain hands-on skills and connections to confidently pitch their business ideas at the conclusion of the program.

Provides support groups that are set up based on need. Neurological Support Group meetings fourth Tuesday of every month in the main floor conference room. Group is for patient or caregiver and includes Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's, Alzheimer's, Huntington's or any other affliction that has brought on neurological challenges. The group is for either the person afflicted or the caregiver. Call for times.

General medical care for all. Services include:

- Audiology.

- Family medicine.

- ENT.

- Gastroenterology.

- Internal medicine.

- Pediatrics.

Counsels and advises the Mayor of concerns of citizens with disabilities and recommends to the Mayor policies to be implemented through municipal government that: affect the status of citizens with disabilities; affect employment in municipal government of citizens with disabilities; and affect accessibility to and from public buildings and infrastructures governed by municipal codes and ordinances.

Provides immediate, walk-in care for minor injuries and non-emergency illnesses that are not life-threatening but need early attention. Common conditions include sore throat, pink eye, flu, sprains, and strains.

Offers a peer counselor can help with decision making, peer pressure, life decisions, relationships, etc.

Helps provide a continuum of care for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Clients in the program will be assigned a medical case manager. Case managers can assist clients by linking them with a network of health care and support services. Services may include:

• Health care services assistance
• Housing assistance
• Rental/mortgage assistance
• Utility assistance
• Permanent supportive housing
• Medication programs
• Medical benefits assistance
• Vision services assistance
• Dental services assistance
• Legal services assistance
• Transportation assistance
• Medical appointment transportation
• Emergency food and nutrition assistance
• Mental health services assistance
• Substance mis-use services

Provides physical, emotional and spiritual care for seriously-ill individuals, their families, and their caregivers. Also offer emotional and spiritual support to the patient and their loved ones. Individualized, person-centered care is provided by an interdisciplinary team that consists of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, counselors, therapists, and certified nursing assistants. On-call nurses are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to answer questions, address needs or concerns, and make home visits. To further support patients and families, Hospice volunteers are available for periodic caregiver respite and companionship. Hospice of Dubuque ensures that patients receive the necessary and appropriate medications, equipment, supplies, and interventions.

Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes

- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.

• Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
• Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.

  EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.

Head Start is an educational program to help prepare children for transition into kindergarten and provides health screenings and nutrients. Transportation is available at most locations. Early Head Start is specific to meet the developmental needs of infants and toddlers. Offers home-based options with a weekly visit from a teacher in the family's home along with two special days a month for activities with other families.

Available to family and professional caregivers concerned about persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. Services include caregiver support groups, information and referral to community resources.

Provides case management and referral information to households to help them build and maintain stability within the family and household. Services may include some financial assistance to help reach stability.