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Skiff Home Care & Jasper County Public Health Nursing

HOMEHEALTH SERVICESHOME CARE/PUBLIC HEALTH

There's no place like home for health care. With that in mind, Skiff Home Care has assembled a remarkable collection of services designed to serve the specific needs of our clients in their homes. The Jasper County Public Heath Nursing Service has expertise in giving skilled and compassionate nursing care where needed throughout Jasper County.

Jasper County public health nursing offers the following:

Registered nurses – RNs provide skilled nursing care to promote and maintain health, prevent disease and disabilities, and assist in the rehabilitation of the sick and disabled.

Home care aides – Certified Home Health Aides provide assistance with personal grooming and care, and a variety of home management services.

Speech therapy – Speech therapists identify, evaluate, and treat persons who are unable to understand or appropriately use speech and language, or assist with swallowing difficulties.

Physical therapy – Physical therapists help to restore physical functioning and independence through planned exercises and treatment programs.

Medical social worker – Provides counseling, assistance and referrals to clients to help them continue to live independently in their own homes.

Other services:

  • Infusion therapy
  • Well child clinics
  • Visits to new mothers and babies
  • Immunization clinics
  • Blood pressure screenings
  • Lifeline
  • Health education through teaching and counseling
  • Communicable disease follow-up

Billing – We provide four methods of payment for home care services:

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Private insurance
  • Private pay (based on a sliding fee schedule when appropriate)

Contact us

To learn more, call (641) 792-5086 or e-mail Home Care Director Brenda Smithat bsmith@skiffmed.com.

Skiff Medical Center
204 N. 4th Ave E.
Newton, Iowa 50208
Phone: (641) 792-1273
Toll-free: (888) 792-1273

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Skiff Medical Center is a city-owned hospital in Newton, Iowa. We provide services to Jasper County residents in all major health areas, including general surgery, orthopedic surgery, radiology, obstetrics, emergency medicine, hospice, home care, laboratory, respiratory, audiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy. The Skiff Specialty Clinic hosts more than 20 physicians specializing in cardiology, dermatology, ENT, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, oncology, pulmonology and urology. Skiff also serves the nearby communities of Baxter, Colfax and Monroe through freestanding medical clinics, and enjoys a close partnership with the physicians of Newton Clinic and other area providers.
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