Provides consultation for families, caregivers, or individuals experiencing unique circumstances, from Alzheimer's, dementia, and complex medical needs.

- Housing for families of children who are undergoing treatment for cancer and other life threatening illnesses - Families assigned own room. Each family supplies own food - Outside and inside play area, living rooms, recreation rooms and kitchens - University hospitals provide shuttle service - Volunteers provide rides to grocery stores, Target and many other helpful duties

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.

- Housing for families of children who are undergoing treatment for cancer and other life threatening illnesses - Families assigned own room. Each family supplies own food - Outside and inside play area, living rooms, recreation rooms and kitchens - University hospitals provide shuttle service - Volunteers provide rides to grocery stores, Target and many other helpful duties

Alzheimer's and Dementia Care: Provides individualized assessments for evaluating cognitive and functional levels. Services include: - Promoting independence in dressing, bathing, toileting and assistance with memory, communication and swallowing difficulties - Provide education with addressing physical health needs, medication management, strength development and fall risk reduction - Teaching families and caregivers strategies for managing the care needs of their loved ones - Teaching how to effectively respond to challenging behaviors such as aggression, agitation, and repetition - Treatment planning Home Health Aide (HHA): Home Health Aides are responsible for documenting the care provided to individuals, and notifying the case manager of any changes in health. Home Health Aides may assist in the following areas: - Assistance with dressing - Bathing, washing hair and shaving - Getting in/out of bed - Maintaining a safe living environment - Monitoring blood pressure, temperature and other vital signs Skilled Nursing: Provide in home care services while recovering from an illness, injury, or event. Services may include: - Bowel and bladder care - Infusion Therapy - Medication setup and dispensing - Ostomy care - Pain management - Wound care/dressing changes Skilled Therapies: Provides in home occupational, physical, or speech therapy to assist with the recovery process

Provides free, short-term grief support counseling for youth and adults and their families who are grieving the death or terminal diagnosis of a family member. Also provides referrals to mental health providers who offer long-term grief support, trauma therapy, or psychiatric care. Will assist clients with referrals to legal resources.

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

Provides a helpline that connects patients to resources in their community and offers information on patient services, support groups, social services, medical equipment, wigs and prostheses, transportation, lodging, financial programs and tobacco quitline.

Alzheimer's and Dementia Care: Provides individualized assessments for evaluating cognitive and functional levels. Services include: - Promoting independence in dressing, bathing, toileting and assistance with memory, communication and swallowing difficulties - Provide education with addressing physical health needs, medication management, strength development and fall risk reduction - Teaching families and caregivers strategies for managing the care needs of their loved ones - Teaching how to effectively respond to challenging behaviors such as aggression, agitation, and repetition - Treatment planning Home Health Aide (HHA): Home Health Aides are responsible for documenting the care provided to individuals, and notifying the case manager of any changes in health. Home Health Aides may assist in the following areas: - Assistance with dressing - Bathing, washing hair and shaving - Getting in/out of bed - Maintaining a safe living environment - Monitoring blood pressure, temperature and other vital signs Skilled Nursing: Provide in home care services while recovering from an illness, injury, or event. Services may include: - Bowel and bladder care - Infusion Therapy - Medication setup and dispensing - Ostomy care - Pain management - Wound care/dressing changes Skilled Therapies: Provides in home occupational, physical, or speech therapy to assist with the recovery process

- Information about funerals, cremation and burial. Includes information and appropriate referrals on topics such as: law, grief counseling, prepayment of funerals, anatomical gifts, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrom (SIDS) - Provides appropriate literature and teaching aids to the general public, schools, churches, service and community organizations, on subjects of death and dying and the funeral - Will supply qualified personnel to conduct study groups, seminars and speakers for discussion groups of all ages - Works with all support groups, (Theos, Compassionate Friends, Hospice Coalition Group, Suicide Survivor Therapists)

Over 100 support groups in the chapter area for individuals with MS, care partners, and specialized groups Support Group Finder

Outpatient mental health care clinic providing couples, individual, and family counseling with a Christian perspective. Specific areas include: - Adolescent/youth counseling - Anger management - Bereavement/grief counseling - Child guidance - Couples counseling - Crime victim counseling - Cultural transition counseling - Disability counseling - Divorce counseling - Employment transition/retirement counseling - Family violence counseling including adult incest survivors, child abuse counseling, elder abuse counseling, parent abuse counseling, and spousal abuse counseling - Gambling counseling - Geriatric counseling - Health problems counseling - Marriage counseling - Overspenders counseling - Parent counseling - Post abortion counseling - Postpartum counseling - Premarital counseling - Psychiatric disorder counseling - Sexual assault counseling for adults and children - Sexuality counseling - Terminal illness counseling

- - Chemotherapy - - General surgery - - Hematology care - - Lung cancer screening - - Nutrition Therapy: Registered dietitians assess food needs and help individuals set goals to improve eating and manage weight - - Oncology nurse navigation - - Social Services: Social workers help individuals and their families find support for emotional or financial issues, and community resources - - Surgical oncology

HIV Education and Support Services for Youth: - HIV prevention, education and counseling for young men and women who have sex with men ages 13 - 30, high risk people of any age who report having sexual and needle-sharing partners between the ages of 13 - 30. - Free HIV testing for anyone of any age. - Case management for any HIV+ youth age 13 - 30 and their families, including support and referrals to community resources as needed. - Group education and consultation about AIDS and HIV-related health issues of gay and bisexual youth for professionals, community members, and schools.

Provides consultation for families, caregivers, or individuals experiencing unique circumstances, from Alzheimer's, dementia, and complex medical needs.

Alzheimer's and Dementia Care: Provides individualized assessments for evaluating cognitive and functional levels. Services include: - Promoting independence in dressing, bathing, toileting and assistance with memory, communication and swallowing difficulties - Provide education with addressing physical health needs, medication management, strength development and fall risk reduction - Teaching families and caregivers strategies for managing the care needs of their loved ones - Teaching how to effectively respond to challenging behaviors such as aggression, agitation, and repetition - Treatment planning Home Health Aide (HHA): Home Health Aides are responsible for documenting the care provided to individuals, and notifying the case manager of any changes in health. Home Health Aides may assist in the following areas: - Assistance with dressing - Bathing, washing hair and shaving - Getting in/out of bed - Maintaining a safe living environment - Monitoring blood pressure, temperature and other vital signs Skilled Nursing: Provide in home care services while recovering from an illness, injury, or event. Services may include: - Bowel and bladder care - Infusion Therapy - Medication setup and dispensing - Ostomy care - Pain management - Wound care/dressing changes Skilled Therapies: Provides in home occupational, physical, or speech therapy to assist with the recovery process

An online platform that provides financial assistance grants for families facing a medical crisis. The "Bounce and Not Break" platform allows families to access a network of donors and supporters. Payments are made directly to the lenders/service for each funding goal that is achieved

Offers advanced cancer treatments, screenings and clinical research studies. Cancer Support Programs - Brainerd Lakes Pay It Forward Cancer Fund: 1-time gift for non-medical bills (i.e. mortgage payment, child care expense, etc.) to area cancer patients in treatment - Breast Cancer Survivor Support Group: Monthly meeting for current patients and all survivors - Cancer Support Group: For current patients, survivors, family members or caregivers of a cancer patient - Pink Ribbon Cupboard: Emergency fund for breast cancer patients in treatment to help with non-medical bills Specialties and Services - Chemotherapy and immunotherapy - Hematology - Infusion therapy - Oncology

Residential eight-bed hospice providing specialized care to terminally ill patients and their families. Services include: - 24-hour nursing care and complete patient care - Chaplain/Chapel - Social worker - Bereavement coordinator - Medical director - Meals, laundry, telephone, cable TV and radio - Recreation area - Family bedrooms available

Alzheimer's and Dementia Care: Provides individualized assessments for evaluating cognitive and functional levels. Services include: - Promoting independence in dressing, bathing, toileting and assistance with memory, communication and swallowing difficulties - Provide education with addressing physical health needs, medication management, strength development and fall risk reduction - Teaching families and caregivers strategies for managing the care needs of their loved ones - Teaching how to effectively respond to challenging behaviors such as aggression, agitation, and repetition - Treatment planning Home Health Aide (HHA): Home Health Aides are responsible for documenting the care provided to individuals, and notifying the case manager of any changes in health. Home Health Aides may assist in the following areas: - Assistance with dressing - Bathing, washing hair and shaving - Getting in/out of bed - Maintaining a safe living environment - Monitoring blood pressure, temperature and other vital signs Skilled Nursing: Provide in home care services while recovering from an illness, injury, or event. Services may include: - Bowel and bladder care - Infusion Therapy - Medication setup and dispensing - Ostomy care - Pain management - Wound care/dressing changes Skilled Therapies: Provides in home occupational, physical, or speech therapy to assist with the recovery process

Provides group support for caregivers and supporters of loved ones facing a medically complex or terminal diagnosis. Also offers family consultations to help determine how services can benefit the family now and down the road.

Provides a variety of cancer related services during and after treatment. Services offered: - Acupuncture - Art therapy - Classes, workshops, and retreats for caregivers during and after treatment - Emotional support groups for patients and caregivers - Enhancement program for personalized wig fitting, scarf tying, skin care, and make up tips - Grief/bereavement support groups - Healing touch and Reiki - Message - Music therapy - Personal consultation for post surgical garment fitting - Reflection garden - Spiritual wellness

Outpatient counseling is provided in person and virtually for partners, individuals, children and adolescents. Providers work with clients ages 5 and up. Provides services for: - Anxiety - Behavioral concerns inchild - Bereavement/grief - Chronic illness - Depression - Difficulty with workand/or school - Discernment Counseling - Gender and/or sexualidentity concerns - Holocaust survivorcounseling - Life transitions - Parenting stress - Prepare & Enrich - Relationship stress - SPACE (SupportiveParenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) - Symptom management - Traumatic experiences

- Housing for families of children who are undergoing treatment for cancer and other life threatening illnesses - Families assigned own room. Each family supplies own food - Outside and inside play area, living rooms, recreation rooms and kitchens - University hospitals provide shuttle service - Volunteers provide rides to grocery stores, Target and many other helpful duties

Provides the following services to all those in both family and professional roles that are in need of assistance to learn how to effectively communicate and meet the emotional, spiritual and physical needs of a loved one, client, resident with dementia including those with a history of repeated hospitalizations and dismissal from facilities for challenging and aggressive behavior. Services include: - Conference presentations - Group family consults - Ongoing support to caregivers - Private telephone family consultations - Specialized and appropriate dementia training for both families and professionals