If Your Home Your Home Is Where You'd Like to Stay...
Perhaps WE CAN HELP!!

We're the
Visiting Nurses Association
and we've been helping people just like you for over 60 years!!!

VNA provides
    SKILLED NURSING CARE

    Assistance with patient rehabilitation following a heart attack, stroke, injury, or any other illness.

    Monitor blood sugar, blood pressure, heart and lung conditions.

    Care for ventilator-dependent patients and infants with apnea monitors.

    Administer antibiotics, cancer-fighting drugs and other types of medications through intravenous and central line catheters.

    Change dressings, catheters, and give special treatments.

    Give instructions on medications and proper diets for all patients including diabetics.

    HOME CARE AIDES
    HOMEMAKERS - RESPITE

    Assist with personal cares, bathing, walking.

    Light housekeeping, meal preparation.

    PHYSICAL

    SPEECH

    OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIES
    MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

    COORDINATION OF HOME CARE

    Involved with hospital discharge planning to provide continuity of care from hospital to home.

    Work directly with physicians and other providers to make referrals for additional community services.

    COST OF A VNA VISIT

    The VNA is Medicare-certified. The VNA bills Medicare, Medicaid, and other private insurers for eligible patients. The cost of non-covered visits is determined according to a sliding fee scale based on a family's income and can be adjusted to meet individual family situations.

    Services are available to everyone regardless of age, race, religion, disability, ethnic background, or socio-ecomonic status.

    SERVICE AVAILABILITY

    VNA's intermittent nursing services are available 7 days a week on a 24hour basis. Other services may be provided on a more frequent basis with special arrangements.

    SERVICE AREA

    The VNA provides services primarily to residents of Black Hawk County and Bremer County, as well as to residents in adjacent counties.

    Remember...
    "...there's no place
    like home..."
    Ask for the
    VISITING NURSES
    to help you!
    2530 University Avenue, Waterloo Iowa
    (319) 235-6201
    Email: vnawtloo@cedarnet.org
    MEMBER OF CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY

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