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Provides health care and supportive services to seriously ill individuals and their families. Emphasis is on pain and symptom control so the patient may live their last months and weeks in comfort with dignity. The majority of patients are cared for in their own homes but hospice care is also available in long term care facilities, hospitals or at the Kavanagh House in Des Moines or EveryStep Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston.
Stoney Brook Village is an assisted living facility that provides on-site 24 hour staff and many amenities. Hospice care may be available.
Home Health Care provided by a medically supervised team of professionals and volunteers including doctors directing the medical care, nursing staff helping manage physical symptoms, social workers counseling families and patients to help them understand the emotions they experience. Volunteers, spiritual coordinators, dietary staff, home health aides, and homemaker services also available as well as physical, occupational, and speech therapists.

Bereavement staff counsels families for 13 months as they cope with grief and loss after a loved one's death.

Weekly bereavement/grief support groups.

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Palliative Care
Home Health Aide Services
Hospice Care

Provides end-of-life care for patients and support for their family members and caregivers. Care emphasis on pain and symptom management.

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Hospice Care
General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Hospice services are available to persons who can no longer benefit from curative treatment (the typical Hospice patient has a life-limiting illness of six months or less).
Provides personalized hospice care in the home or residential facility. Services include nursing and aid services, dementia certified care team, social services, spiritual support and pet, music and massage therapy.
Hospice is appropriate for any individual diagnosed with a progressive, life-limiting illness or condition with a prognosis of six months or less, if the illness or condition were to take its normal course. The program seeks to help clients live final months comfortably at home, rather than seeking ongoing curative treatments.

Hospice care includes 24/7 availability for consultation and urgent visits, distribution of medications and durable medical equipment related to terminal diagnosis, personal care needs and companionship provided by hospice aides and volunteers, personalized Veteran services, emotional and spiritual support from team of social workers and pastoral staff and bereavement services for all loved ones for 18 months following hospice care.
Hospice is appropriate for any individual diagnosed with a progressive, life-limiting illness or condition with a prognosis of six months or less, if the illness or condition were to take its normal course. The program seeks to help clients live final months comfortably at home, rather than seeking ongoing curative treatments.

Hospice care includes 24/7 availability for consultation and urgent visits, distribution of medications and durable medical equipment related to terminal diagnosis, personal care needs and companionship provided by hospice aides and volunteers, personalized Veteran services, emotional and spiritual support from team of social workers and pastoral staff and bereavement services for all loved ones for 18 months following hospice care.
Winneshiek Medical Center provides hospice services to people with terminal illness and their families to help maintain the best quality of life possible. Hospice care is provided wherever the person resides, whether it is in their own home, a long-term care facility or the hospital. Patients routinely receive in-home services from an interdisciplinary hospice team including a medical director, nurses, homemaker/health aides, social workers, spiritual advisors, pharmacists, and volunteers. Nursing home residents may receive hospice care as well. The team will work individually with dying person and family members to meet whatever needs arise. Hospice Care provides continued support before and after death (bereavement support for family members). A 21-hour training session is provided for volunteers/support staff (usually held once per year) to provide education on grieving and caregiving. Volunteers are utilized in the following areas: direct patient contact, fundraising, office work, publicity activities.

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In Home Hospice Care
Hospice Facilities
Hospice Care Volunteer Opportunities
Provides general and orthopedic surgery, radiology, OB, ER, hospice, home care, respiratory therapy, audiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and cancer clinic services with specialists in cardiology, vascular surgery, dermatology, gastroenterology, urology, and an ENT specialist.
Provides end of life care. They also have a 6 bed hospice house. Please call for availability.
Provides hospice care to families with a loved one who has a terminal illness. Will make home visits to patients as needed for support.
Skilled nursing facility.

Adult day and night care.

Respite care.

Hospice suites and rooms.

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Adult Day Programs
Hospice Care
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Skilled Nursing Facilities
Provides care and support to the terminally ill and their families in their homes, assisted living facilities, and in long term facilities.
Thornton Manor offers a 24-hour skilled nursing facility. Services include: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy services on-site; Recreation therapy on-site; Unit dose medication; Transportation to medical appointments; Hospice care; and Respite care.

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Hospice Facilities
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Nursing Facilities
Project HOPE was developed to provide quality end-of-life services for the increasing number of terminally ill offenders in the Iowa Department of Corrections. The program provides comfort oriented care and spiritual, emotional, physical and psychological support to terminally offenders and allows them to die with dignity and humanity, in as little pain as possible, and in a hospice setting rather than alone in a cell, infirmary bed, or hospital room.
Services include:
-- Child health services
-- Maternal health services
-- Home health care and homemaker services
-- Hospice care
-- Cancer screening for women
-- Health education, community education, and health planning
-- Immunization clinics for children and adults
-- Family planning services
-- Blood pressure checks
-- Disaster planning and preparedness
-- Tobacco cessation classes
-- Parent education classes
-- Home visits for children ages 0-5
-- Life Assist Emergency Response Alert
-- Public health nursing visits

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Emergency Alert
Home Based Parenting Education
Community Clinics
Smoking/Vaping Cessation
Homemaker Assistance
Hospice Care
Home Nursing
Blood Pressure Screening
General Health Education Programs
Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning
Birth Control
Public Health Nursing
General Immunization
Provides physical, emotional, and spiritual care to individuals at end of life and their families.
Turner Point Assisted Living is an assisted living facility serving adults ages 55 and older. Amenities include: 24-hour on-site staff, laundry services, housekeeping services, medication supervision, personal care, on-site therapy, planned social and recreational activities, emergency call system, nutritious meals and special dietary services, on-site beauty salon, transportation services, dementia care units, and hospice care units.

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Secured Supportive Housing Units
Dementia Management
Assisted Living Facilities
Hospice Facilities
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Hospice is appropriate for any individual diagnosed with a progressive, life-limiting illness or condition with a prognosis of six months or less, if the illness or condition were to take its normal course. The program seeks to help clients live final months comfortably at home, rather than seeking ongoing curative treatments.

Hospice care includes 24/7 availability for consultation and urgent visits, distribution of medications and durable medical equipment related to terminal diagnosis, personal care needs and companionship provided by hospice aides and volunteers, personalized Veteran services, emotional and spiritual support from team of social workers and pastoral staff and bereavement services for all loved ones for 18 months following hospice care.
Full service hospital offering home health care services and hospice care.

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Hospitals
Hospice Care
Home Nursing
Homemaker Assistance
Home Health Aide Services

Offers to help patients and their loved ones to prepare a personal, comprehensive plan of care that meets needs and helps to reach end of life goals. Offers bereavement, grief/grieving support groups.

Nursing home facility. Also offers adult day care, respite care, and hospice services.

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Adult Day Programs
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Skilled Nursing Facilities
Hospice Care

Provides hospice and palliative services to veterans with life-threatening illnesses. Services focus on comfort, quality of life and reducing suffering.