Volunteers help with a variety of needs for individuals and families dealing with cancer. Sample tasks may include lawn service, snow removal, housekeeping, companionship, shopping, household repairs, health care billing, legal advice, and computer assistance.

Assistance with daily living activities such as bathing, meal preparation, grooming, light housekeeping, companionship, laundry, medication reminders, and transportation to doctor's appointments.

Home Health Aides offer personal care, bathing, and light housekeeping to those who are elderly, have disabilities, or have chronic health conditions. Home health aide services help individuals maintain their safety and independence.

Parenting Support - Nurses, parent coaches/family support workers, social workers, and lactation consultants provide physician-directed home visits, prenatal and post-partum support, and health education services to vulnerable families living in poverty at risk of poor health, developmental, and educational outcomes.

Shelter Nursing - Serves as the primary public health provider in all Omaha and Council Bluffs homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, group maternity homes, and youth living on the street. Nursing services include health assessment, education, medication compliance, and management of chronic health conditions and mental and behavioral health. Nurses work with families to address their unique needs by coordinating community resources and accessing medical services to assist with basic healthcare needs, mental health, child safety, and substance and domestic abuse.

Provides flu and immunizations (including COVID) at community and workplace clinics.

School Health Programs - Provides essential preventative health and wellness screening, as well as physical and mental health services to help ensure the overall well-being of students and staff in Omaha area schools. Nurses often provide staff training and work with parents to personalize specific care for students with special needs.

Facilitates access to home health care and hospice services to community members who are uninsured or lack resources.

Home Health Aides offer personal care, bathing, and light housekeeping to those who are elderly, have disabilities, or have chronic health conditions. Home health aide services help individuals maintain their safety and independence.

Parenting Support - Nurses, parent coaches/family support workers, social workers, and lactation consultants provide physician-directed home visits, prenatal and post-partum support, and health education services to vulnerable families living in poverty at risk of poor health, developmental, and educational outcomes.

Shelter Nursing - Serves as the primary public health provider in all Omaha and Council Bluffs homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, group maternity homes, and youth living on the street. Nursing services include health assessment, education, medication compliance, and management of chronic health conditions and mental and behavioral health. Nurses work with families to address their unique needs by coordinating community resources and accessing medical services to assist with basic healthcare needs, mental health, child safety, and substance and domestic abuse.

Provides flu and immunizations (including COVID) at community and workplace clinics.

School Health Programs - Provides essential preventative health and wellness screening, as well as physical and mental health services to help ensure the overall well-being of students and staff in Omaha area schools. Nurses often provide staff training and work with parents to personalize specific care for students with special needs.

Facilitates access to home health care and hospice services to community members who are uninsured or lack resources.

Offers public health emergency preparedness, Alert Iowa notification, community health navigation services, oral health screenings, disease surveillance and investigation, health education, homemaker services, immunizations, lead poisoning prevention screenings and assessment, maternal health education, tobacco use prevention and control, blood pressure checks and tuberculosis screenings.

Loving Touch provides homemaker care including: Safety supervision, Companionship, Medication reminders, Meal planning and preparation, Light housekeeping and laundry, Shopping and errands, and Transportation to appointments.

Companionship, respite care, housekeeping, chores/errands, pet care, meal prep, hospital to home transition care, grooming, bathing/dressing, alzheimer's/dementia care, ambulation, medication reminders, continence care, and appointment assistance.

Housekeeping and chore services.

Homemaker services include 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.

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

Luther College provides two service days each year where staff and students volunteer to assist Decorah community residents with household and yard chores. There is one day provided each spring and one day each fall.

Housekeeping and chore services.

Consumer Directed Attendant Care services provide assistance with dressing, personal cares, cooking, toileting, transferring, ambulation, mobility, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, minor wound care, financial and scheduling assistance, communicating with others, transportation to and from the doctor, essential shopping, picking up medication from the pharmacy, and medication assistance.

Home Health Aides offer personal care, bathing, and light housekeeping to those who are elderly, have disabilities, or have chronic health conditions. Home health aide services help individuals maintain their safety and independence.

Parenting Support - Nurses, parent coaches/family support workers, social workers, and lactation consultants provide physician-directed home visits, prenatal and post-partum support, and health education services to vulnerable families living in poverty at risk of poor health, developmental, and educational outcomes.

Shelter Nursing - Serves as the primary public health provider in all Omaha and Council Bluffs homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, group maternity homes, and youth living on the street. Nursing services include health assessment, education, medication compliance, and management of chronic health conditions and mental and behavioral health. Nurses work with families to address their unique needs by coordinating community resources and accessing medical services to assist with basic healthcare needs, mental health, child safety, and substance and domestic abuse.

Provides flu and immunizations (including COVID) at community and workplace clinics.

School Health Programs - Provides essential preventative health and wellness screening, as well as physical and mental health services to help ensure the overall well-being of students and staff in Omaha area schools. Nurses often provide staff training and work with parents to personalize specific care for students with special needs.

Facilitates access to home health care and hospice services to community members who are uninsured or lack resources.

In home care provides personal care and companionship.

Companionship offers socialization, respite care, medication reminders, meal preparation, shopping and errands, light housekeeping, bathing assistance, laundry, incidental transportation, etc.

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

Provides non-medical in-home care services such as companionship, meal preparation, medication management, light housekeeping, and transportation.

Consumer Directed Attendant Care services provide assistance with dressing, personal cares, cooking, toileting, transferring, ambulation, mobility, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, minor wound care, financial and scheduling assistance, communicating with others, transportation to and from the doctor, essential shopping, picking up medication from the pharmacy, and medication assistance.

Everlasting Home Healthcare offers chore services for the general public. Services include spring and fall cleaning, washing walls and baseboards, organizing closets, cleaning the windows, knocking down cobwebs, washing curtains, organizing the garage or basement, moving the furniture to clean under it, and any other deep cleaning that may be needed.

Non-medical in home care including personal care, light housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation (including shopping and meal planning), errands, and companionship.

Winneshiek County Public Health Nursing Services offers personal care, exercises, and light housekeeping.