The 10 Best Home Health Agencies for Seniors in Des Moines, IA for 2025

Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa Home Care has served central Iowa communities since 1908. We understand the importance of caring for you in the comfort of your own home, with individualized care plans, and one-on-one attention from your nurse. We offer a full range of home care services to assist you in regaining your independence and abilities as you recover from an illness, injury, or medical condition. Skilled Nursing Care Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Speech Therapy Vision Therapy Medical Social Worker Home Care Aides Homemakers We are Medicare Certified and accept Medicaid Waivers, private insurance and long-term care insurance. As a nonprofit, community-based provider, we are committed to serving every individual, regardless of income, benefits or resources. Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa is CHAP Accredited. Caregiver Information Caregiver Skills Include: Ethics, Vallidation Therapy, Patient Transfers, Stress Management, Grief Issues, Family Communication, Transition Issues, Communicating with Dementia Patients, Personal Cares Caregivers employed, bonded and insured: Yes Available to assisted living facility: Yes RN on Staff: Yes Home Health (Medical) Care: Yes

"Hospices are generally know as caring, comforting, and their nurses going out to homes providing care have the same reputation. Mercy Hospice assigned a visigting nurse to this patient's home. The nurse was to listen to the patient's heart, etc. & general health needs. This nurse never once told the family that the patient's lungs were filling with fluid (a condition that occurs with later rounds of chemotherapy). This patient essentially suffocated,from lungs filled with fluid. The patient was frightened and gasping for breath to the point of not being able to speak for over 14 hours expiring just before 10 PM that night. There are humane ways of dying, but this is not one of them. The nurse made her ONE trip to the house early that morning and just stuck a nose canula for oxygen into the patients open gasping mouth. The family was never given the choice of having the patients lungs cleared by aspiration, which would allow the patient comfort & die many months later by merely slipping into a coma. This way was more cost effective, after all, the patient was going to die anyway! This is NOT the only hospice care facility in this area. There are three other hospice facilities. Mercy Hospice did not provide much mercy. "

"Wesley at Home Des Moines provided my mother with physical therapy. They've got a home health aide coming in to do light housekeeping, meal prep, and that sort of thing. The caregivers are doing a fantastic job. I would prefer they set a schedule and stick to it rather than calling each week to set up the day when they're coming. I think a consistent schedule would have been more helpful as far as physical therapy goes."