Iroquois Memorial Hospital and Resident Home

Iroquois Memorial Hospital and Resident Home provides high quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age, or ability to pay. Although reimbursement for services rendered is critical to the operation and stability of the Hospital, it is recognized that not all individuals possess the ability to purchase essential medical health care services and health care education. Therefore, in keeping with the Hospital's commitment to serve all members of our community, some care is provided to persons covered by governmental programs at below cost. The community will be considered where the need and/or an individual's inability to pay exist. These activities include prevention and wellness programs, community education programs, and special programs for the elderly, handicapped, and the medically under served including a variety of broad community support activities.the Hospital is located in watseka, Illinois and serves the surrounding communities in Iroquois county and west-central Indiana. There are outpatient clinics maintained in gilman, milford, and watseka, Illinois as well as kentland, Indiana. The Hospital provides beds for acutecare, intensive care, nursery, and long-term care. The Hospital also provides ambulance services to most of Iroquois county with stations in gilman and watseka. Home health and hospice provide services to watseka and surrounding communities in the Hospital's service area. The Iroquois regional health center houses physical, occupational, and speech therapies. The Hospital is certified to provide care to persons covered by governmental programs. Recognizing its mission to the community, services are provided to both medicare and medicaid patients. To the extent reimbursement is below cost, the Hospital records these amounts as uncompensated care in meeting its mission to the entire community. Iroquois Memorial Hospital provides non-traditional Hospital based services such as ambulance coverage to watseka and the surrounding Iroquois county communities. In addition to the costs of uncompenssated care and other non-traditional services, Iroquois Memorial Hospital & Resident Home committed significant time and resources to endeavors andother critical services which meet otherwise unfilled community needs. Some of those rograms that further the Hospital's mission include:ambulance support for sporting events and surrounding volunteerambulance departmentsblood drivesbreast cancer awareness eventbreast-feeding classes for expectant motherscamp 911 safety programs for area school childrenfarm safety educationfirst aid for local community eventsfree and reduced fee health screeningsfree blood pressure screeningsfree cpr training for the publicgo red healthy heart eventhealth-related articles in local publicationsbirthing classeslifelinemeals on wheelsspeaker's bureautours for area school children