Lakeview Homecare

Lakeview Homecare provides award-winning, convenient, cost-effective, comprehensive homecare services to promote healing at home. Our team pays special attention to your emotional, spiritual and psychological health. We work closely with you, your family and your personal physician to create a care plan that fits with your goals.

We offer nursing support 24 hours a day, seven days a week for acute care and chronic illnesses. Our qualified staff and state-of-the-art technology offer professional care across the St. Croix Valley in both Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The Lakeview Homecare team provides:

• Skilled nursing care
• Wound care
• Home IV therapy
• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy
• Nutrition consultations
• Home health aide services for personal care
• Social services
• Pharmacy services
• Laboratory services

We work with you to:

• Manage a number of conditions, including congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and cancer
• Care for post-surgical wounds, burns, amputations and skin ulcers
• Overcome life-altering medical events such as strokes, fractures and surgeries
• Support personal care and activities that promote independent, daily living
• Manage pain and discomfort

Consider Lakeview Homecare if you or your loved one:

• Are homebound or must make a taxing effort to leave the home
• Are receiving dialysis, transfusions, chemo, radiation, TPN or IV antibiotics
• Require wound monitoring and care
• Are recovering from a recent joint replacement
• Have an acute or chronic illness
• Were recently hospitalized

The area’s top-rated homecare provider:

• A nine-time Homecare Elite Top Homecare Agency with six years in the Top 500 (Ability ® & DecisionHealth)
• Top-rated for Overall Quality of Patient Care (Medicare Home Health Compare)
• Top-rated for performance in improving patients’ mobility and breathing, managing pain, and healing wounds (Medicare Home Health Compare)

Call us for a free consultation at 651-430-3320

Lakeview Hospice

Our hospice program encourages choice and control over your plan of care. You, along with your family and personal physician, decide together when hospice care should begin. Our team works together to address your physical, emotional and spiritual needs – and those of your family. Hospice works to enable you to continue an alert, pain-free life and manage your symptoms, so your remaining days may be spent with dignity and quality. Hospice care can be provided in your home, a nursing home, or at an in-patient facility such as a hospital.

The Lakeview Hospice team provides:

• Care directed by a doctor who has training in providing hospice and end-of-life care, who works in partnership with your personal physician
• Regular visits by nurses trained in hospice care, as well as 24-hour, on-call nursing support
• Help with daily needs, such as bathing, cooking, cleaning and more
• Visits from a chaplain (if requested)
• Social service support
• Respite care
• Medical equipment and supplies
• Medications to help control pain and symptoms
• Life Stories written by trained hospice volunteers
• Volunteer support
• Family support services
• Music therapy
• Pet therapy

Consider Lakeview Hospice if you or your loved one:

• are faced with a terminal or end-stage illness
• have cancer that has spread and all curative treatment has stopped
• are in the final stages of Alzheimer’s, dementia, a respiratory or heart condition, or a progressive neurological disease

Recognition:

• Lakeview Hospice is rated at 10 percent above the national average for Overall Quality of Patient Care (as reported by NRC Health’s CAHPS Hospice Survey).

Palliative Care

Palliative care works to improve the quality of life for patients and families who are facing serious or advanced illnesses. Our interdisciplinary team works with you, your family and your primary care physician to define your goals and wishes and complete your advance care planning, while respecting your choices. Lakeview’s compassionate, comfort-based care promotes quality of life, whether or not you choose to pursue curative treatment.

The Lakeview Palliative Care team offers:

• Management of difficult symptoms, including:
  • pain
  • nausea
  • anxiety and depression
  • fatigue
  • shortness of breath
  • constipation
  • loss of appetite


• Guidance when goals of care change in:
  • considering care options
  • making decisions about quality of life
  • interpreting the benefits and burdens of care, such as tests, surgery or medications


• Support for both patient and family to:
  • help identify what is important to you and your family
  • encourage effective communication in complicated family situations
  • promote well-being, peace of mind and the best quality of life

 Consider Lakeview Palliative Care if you or your loved one:

• are homebound or find leaving the home to be extremely taxing
• are receiving dialysis, transfusions, chemo, radiation, TPN or IV antibiotics
• have an advanced illness
• are transitioning to more selective, less aggressive treatment
• have cancer and need symptom management
• have a deteriorating chronic condition