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Home Care
Statement
of Purpose | | Staff & Administration
Statement
of Purpose
Our Purpose:
Our trained and experienced staff provides personal care and
homemaking services to:
- Empower Bremer
County residents to remain independent and in their own
homes
- Help care for an
ill and physically/mentally challenged family member
- Reduce hospital
or skilled nursing time
- Delay a move to
assisted living or nursing home care
- Provide respite
for family care takers
- Protect
vulnerable children and adults from neglect or abuse if
court ordered
A Grant from the Iowa
Department of Public Health allows Bremer County Home Care
to offer services on a sliding fee scale so that all county
residents who need help have access to it without being
financially burdened.
Referrals are
accepted from anyone and all Bremer County residents are
eligible if the need exists. There is no cost for the
confidential needs assessment. Services are determined by
the client with a Bremer County Home Care Representative,
and are provided without discrimination by skilled and
supervised staff. Call (319)352-0527
Services available
are:
- Assistance with
bathing, hair care, oral care, walking and prescribed
exercise
- Light Housekeeping
- Laundry
- Meal
planning/preparation
- Respite for primary
caregivers
- Grocery and essential
shopping
- Monitoring medications
- Protective care
services as ordered by the court
Administration
The local Board of Health contracts
with the Bremer County Board of Supervisors to provide Home Care to
this county. It is the Director's job to assure compliance with all
State Department of Public Health regulations so that the sate
appropriation is received annually and used for its stated purpose;
subsidizing Home Care for low income Bremer County residents who
need assistance to remain independent as long as that is safely
possible.
Staff:
Name
Date of Hire
Director
Sara Petersen
2006
Care Manager
Mary Harms
1990
Admin. Asst.
Brenda Pothast
1994
Direct Care Worker Susan Strottman
1983
Stacy Kettwig
1993
Shirley Franklin
1990
Agnes Benning
1990
Judy Barker
2007
Mary Alice Anthony
2007
Our Staff has over 105 years
of combined service with this agency, which began in 1982,
and has been serving the needs of our elderly and challenged
citizens since that time.
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