Connects uninsured with health care

- Provides foster care for elderly, mentally ill or developmentally disabled persons of either gender - Capacity of 2 - Pets - Smoking unknown - Experience with end of life care - Dual Adult Foster Care/Child Foster Care License

Home Health Care Medicare certified home health agency available to provide: - Skilled Nursing services - Home health aide personal care services - Physical therapy in the home - Occupational Therapy - Speech Therapy - Senior companions - Respite care - Care at home during recovery from an acute illness or injury - Care at home for chronically ill/disabled adults and children - Care at home for terminally ill - Help adjusting to an illness or disability - Information about a new diet, medication or disease - Personal care & support services to help stay in the home as long as possible - Information about other community resources - Access to medical supplies & equipment - Long Term Care Consultation - Prior to nursing home placement, an assessment is done by a Public Health Nurse and Social Worker - Relocation services back into community setting

Staff are available for speaking engagements pertaining to Tamarisk, Inc.'s mission specifically, or issues regarding the consequences of life-threatening illness for the individual and family from a non-medical perspective, caregiver wellbeing, or grief and loss

Provided in the patient's home, a nursing home, or at an inpatient facility such as a hospital: - Care directed by a physician who has training in providing hospice and end-of-life care, along with the patient's personal physician - Family support services throughout the care - Help with daily needs, such as bathing, cooking, cleaning, or other needs - If requested, visits from a chaplain - Medical Equipment: Hospital bed, medical supplies, oxygen, and rails - Medications to help control pain and symptoms - Regular visits by nurses trained in hospice care, as well as 24-hour, on-call nursing support - Respite care - Social service support - Volunteer support

- 24-hour skilled nursing care - Occupational, physical, and speech therapy - Restorative nursing - Recreational therapy - Respite care program in the nursing home - Hospice suite with adjoining family room - Specialized support with chapel services - Private rooms - Beauty/barber services

- Class D Hospice program - Care for terminally ill patients - Support for family members

Hospice care is delivered through a team of professionals under St. Mary's Hospital Hospice. The mission of Itasca Hospice is to support and assure access for patients and families to quality Hospice services as provided by Itasca Hospice, and to educate the community on issues of dying, death and grief. Hospice offers a variety of support groups dealing with illness, death and grief.

Inpatient hospice