Hiawatha Homecare

Hiawatha Homecare is a home health care provider in Red Wing, MN. The agency serves clients in Minnesota and Wisconsin, offering private duty nursing, skilled nursing visits, extended nursing hours, and non-medical home services that include physical and occupational therapy and home health aide assistance. Its nurses manage complex medical needs such as ventilators, tracheostomies, feeding tubes, and IV nutrition, and provide wound care, medication management, and disease monitoring. The agency holds a rating of 4.00. Hiawatha Homecare began in 1988, when Karen Seifert started her own agency to care for her son Michael, who came home on life support after doctors said he would never be discharged from intensive care. For five years Michael was the agency's only client. In 1993 Karen expanded and became fully licensed and certified, starting with a staff of four. The agency has since employed over 700 nurses and served over 700 clients. It is licensed through the Department of Health in both Minnesota and Wisconsin, is a Medicare Certified agency, and is an active member of the Minnesota Home Care Association and the Wisconsin Home Care Organization. Care is built around the client, the client's physician, and the family, with personalized care plans and one-on-one nursing. Hiawatha requires at least one willing and able family caregiver, and works with families to train them on the cares they choose to handle themselves. Nurses can accompany clients to medical appointments, classes, social activities, and events when transportation is provided by a family member or transportation company. The office sits on Moundview Drive, about 0.1 miles from Route 61, Moundview Drive, and The Colvill Memorial Highway. The Anderson Center Sculpture Garden is about 0.3 miles away, Burnside Elementary and the Cannon River are each about 0.5 miles away. Hiawatha Homecare is Medicare certified, licensed in two states, and holds a positive rating from the customers who have reviewed it, with a care philosophy shaped by the Seifert family's own experience as both home care clients and a home care agency.