Public Health

Health Promotion includes activities that focus on health maintenance for adults, such as blood pressure clinics, diet counseling, foot care clinics, diabetes counseling, influenza vaccination clinics, and Lifeline system installation (emergency response system).

Family Health promotion provides family health services with a primary focus on expectant mothers, postpartum mothers, and infants.

WIC (Women, Infants and Children) is a government-sponsored program that provides nutrition education and special foods to women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or have recently had a baby; infants ages newborn to 1 year; and children ages 1 to 5.

Immunization Clinics are held periodically at the LNS office for a the cost of $5.00 per vaccine.

School Nursing provides health services to the students of Lake of the Woods School. A nurse from LNS staffs the school nursing office on school days.

Communities Caring for Children, a program involving thirteen counties in northwestern Minnesota, is free to pregnant women and to children ages 1 to 5. Its goals are to encourage pregnant women to receive prenatal care, to increase the number of children who receive well-child exams and immunizations, and to educate communities about the importance of these preventive health measures.

Child and Teen Checkups are for children and teens, birth to 21 years, who are enrolled in Medical Assistance and Minnesota Care. This program promotes regular health check-ups and provides information about healthy lifestyles.

For more information please contact LakeWood Nursing Service at
(218) 634-1795.

Home Health

Home Health options provide skilled nursing, available to people who wish to remain in their homes while receiving treatment or follow-up care. Referrals to home care can be made by anyone. A referral is followed by a no-charge assessment visit, after which an individualized plan of care is developed.

Nursing care is provided by public health nurses, RNs and LPNs on an intermittent basis in the home setting.

Home Health Aide assistance to patients in the home setting may offer them help with bathing and dressing, exercise, meal preparation, housekeeping, and laundry. Home health aides are required to complete a state-approved training program.

Homemaking services are available to assist patients in their homes with a variety of non-personal care tasks, such as housekeeping, laundry, grocery shopping, meal preparation, and errands.

Personal Care Attendant services are provided by the state of Minnesota to individuals with chronic disabilities who need help with personal cares. Personal care attendants at LNS meet the same training requirements as home health aides and may assist patients with bathing and dressing, non-complex treatment, and exercise.

Respite Services are designed to enable primary care givers to take time off. This service does not provide for personal cares.

For more information please contact LakeWood Nursing Service at
(218) 634-1795.