Program areas at Burgess Health Center
Burgess Health Center includes a not-for-profit acute care hospital. Our physicians and staff are committed to providing patients with compassionate, knowledgeable and trustworthy care. We provide the following services: cancer care and infusion, cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes Center, emergency services, home Health, hospice, private duty and life assist care, on-site laboratory, mental Health, surgery, family beginnings, orthopedics, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, pulmonary rehab, radiology, screenings, and various outpatient specialty clinics.
Burgess Health Center includes home Health services. Staff are dedicated to add comfort to patients' recovery, ease the impact on friends and family, and help patients' transition to lifestyle adjustments necessary for the illness. Services include i.v. Medications, nourishment, wound care, hygiene and daily living assistance, physical, occupational and speech therapies, support through social workers, skilled nursing visits, and homemaker services.burgess hospice staff provide professional grief counselors and skilled volunteers to patients (typically with a life-limiting illness with a short-term survival estimate). Ensuring the patient is as comfortable and pain-free as possible. They, also, help family members cope with end of life issues.
Burgess Health Center includes five rural Health clinics in a four county service area. Clinics are located in decatur, Nebraska, and sloan, whiting, mapleton, and dunlap, Iowa; which are staffed by dedicated physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to provide a complete spectrum of healthcare services for the whole family.