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Provides health screenings, health education and nutrition, immunizations, school physicals, pediatrics, and coordination of care.
Offers comprehensive health services to area children, including:
- Periodic "head to toe" well-child exams for children from birth to 18 years of age
- Hemoglobin tests
- Blood lead screenings
- Immunizations
- TB Waiver if needed
- Developmental screenings
- Physical exams, including school physicals and sports physicals
- Counseling and referral
Clinics are held in Kewanee at the Health Department office.
Developmental Screening: Early identification of developmental delays, including:
- Communication/Social Skills.
- Movement.
- Self-help skills.
Physical Therapy: Movement, motor development, and body function. Works with children with a wide variety of diagnoses, including:
- Developmental delays.
- Cerebral palsy.
- Down syndrome.
- Spina bifida.
- Torticollis.
- Plagiocephaly.
- Genetic disorders.
- Hypotonia.
- Toe walking.
- Post-surgical rehabilitation.
Occupational Therapy: Increases a child's independence and quality of life while targeting areas including:
- Daily living skills.
- Sensory processing.
- Self-regulation.
- Motor skills.
- Coordination.
Treatment includes an emphasis on educating the caregivers and providing strategies to increase participation in their home and community environments.
Speech Therapy services also available.
Health care for all ages, including obstetrical, pediatrics, geriatrics, general medical care, women's health, reproductive health, prenatal, obstetrics and gynecology, and radiology/ultrasound.
Blood testing for lead.
HIV testing and counseling.
Tuberculosis prevention and case management.
Immunizations for children and adults, including flu vaccines. COVID vaccines available in office or at home.
Screening and treatment for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cholesterol, and depression.
Routine services such as pap smears, school physicals, prenatal visits, well baby exams, physicals and other routine healthcare procedures. Follow-up visits for patients with diabetes, elevated blood lead levels, hypertension, behavioral health concerns, and other on-going health problems are also routine activities at the clinic.
Health education is integrated into each patient's visit. Nutrition, disease prevention and management are taught to patients individually and in groups. Educational follow-up, care coordination, management and peer education, including care for sexually transmitted diseases, latent tuberculosis, high lead levels, prenatal care, and care for chronic diseases (asthma, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and depression).
Specialist referrals for services not available at the clinic are made for all patients. Appointments for patients without insurance and/or limited income are made through Hope Medical Outreach Coalition volunteer physicians and facilities.