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Provides public health services to Clarke County residents, including home care, immunizations, general physicals, and mental health administration. Programs for women and children offer early childhood development and lead poisoning screenings, which include blood tests to identify lead ingestion and home or clinic-based inspections to evaluate lead hazards. Additionally, the department provides environmental health services and information regarding communicable diseases.

Offers home health aide services. Allowing clients to continue living at home, including assisted living facilities while receiving medical care. Services include personal care such as showering and bathing, nail care, shaving, oral and denture care, toileting, catheter, and ostomy assistance, exercise “buddy” for range of motion, endurance and wellness, encouraging mobility, including walking with an assistive device, nutrition assistance, including meal preparation and feeding, medication reminders and light housekeeping and chores.

Provides comprehensive, coordinated care and services to patients at home within a 50-mile radius of Ames. In-Home Health Care is typically under a physician's order. Registered nurses are available to provide skilled nursing care and serve as the primary supervisor of other in-home services.

Additionally, trained homemakers may assist with routine household activities such as menu planning, budgeting, shopping, child care, meal preparation, laundry, and general household management, including light housekeeping, to support families affected by illness, disability, or other challenges.

Provides home care services to individuals with a serious illness, regardless of age or stage of disease. Supportive care is provided in-home by a nurse, who works with other healthcare providers. Services can be provided along with healing treatments including nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social services, and home health aides.

Companion care services include social interaction, medication reminders, meal preparation, shopping and errands, light housekeeping, pet care, laundry, incidental transportation, etc.

Personal care includes ambulation assistance, bathing and showering, continence care and toileting, skin and hair care, dressing, feeding, etc.

Specialty care/Skilled nursing care includes wound care, medication administration, catheter care, etc.

Provides home healthcare and palliative care for older adults and people living with a serious illness. Services include:

- Ensuring care is matched to goals and priorities.

- Providing counseling and support.

- Facilitating family meetings with healthcare team.

- Educating patients and families about what to expect in the future.

- Communicating and coordinating with healthcare team.

- Recommending management approaches for emotional symptoms and physician coordination.

- Assisting with identification of surrogate decision-maker.

Delivers skilled nursing and therapy services to persons in their homes. Some of the services include wound and diabetic care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and disease specific education.

Provides skilled nursing services to persons in their home.

Services provided include

- Home Health Aide: Assists with hygiene care, teaches patients and/or caregivers how to safely bathe and groom the patient, obtains vital signs, looks for abnormalities in skin turgor, and reports any abnormalities.

- Nursing Care: Complicated wound care, IV therapy (including PICC line care and removal), blood testing, staple/suture removal, injections, pre-fill insulin syringes, diabetes education, medication instruction, ostomy and gastrotomy instructions and care, tracheostomy instructions and care, etc.

- Physical therapy.
- Speech therapy.
- Occupational therapy (to re-teach basic living skills).

Provides health education to the public and to schools. Helps with planning and preparedness for infectious diseases or other public health incidents for the Decatur County area. Offers immunizations to children, adolescents and adults, including the flu and COVID vaccines.

Home health care services and home nursing is provided to those in need. Can provide personal care assistance for bathing, hair care, housekeeping and laundry, meal planning and preparation, errands, and waiver services.

Home health care services including skilled nursing, rehabilitative therapies, home care aides, speech therapy, dietitian consult, certified wound ostomy, continence nurse, medical alert systems and homemaker assistance.

Provides the following services: home health care (skilled nursing, home care aids, homemakers), immunizations, dental services, lead poisoning prevention, lead testing, physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. Additionally, the program provides communicable disease information and control.