HCI Care Services and Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa has been awarded a 2017 Top Workplaces honor by The Des Moines Register and was named “Runner-Up: Best Nonprofit” by the Des Moines Business Record.
The Top Workplaces lists are based solely on the results of an employee feedback survey administered by WorkplaceDynamics LLC, a research firm that specializes in organizational health and workplace improvement. Several aspects of workplace culture were measured, including alignment, execution and connection.
The “Best of Des Moines” annual survey is conducted by the Des Moines Business Record via an online open-ended poll, where participants vote for the businesses, people and events they think are the “Best of Des Moines” in dozens of categories – including best nonprofit.
“Receiving these accolades is really a reflection of how much our employees and supporters believe in our nonprofit mission and the outcomes we achieve for our patients and clients,” said Tray Wade, president and CEO of HCI Care Services and VNS of Iowa. “Our goal is to help the vulnerable people we serve live their best lives.”
Last year, the organization’s nearly 400 employees provided critical healthcare and social services to 60,000 Iowans across the state’s southern tier. The nonprofit has 14 locations, including multiple, locally staffed teams for its HCI Hospice Care Services, Hospice With Heart and VNS Home Care programs.
HCI Care Services and Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa (VNS of Iowa) is a nonprofit, community-based organization which provides vital health care and social services in 47 Iowa counties. With a history of providing public health care dating back to 1908, the organization is known for serving vulnerable populations at vulnerable moments in life. The organization’s hospice care services, offered through its HCI Hospice Care Services and Hospice With Heart programs, are provided via home visits from locally based teams and at the organization’s residential hospice houses: Kavanagh House on 56th Street in Des Moines and Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston.
The hospice teams and the organization's VNS Home Care program offer comfort, care and dignity for those facing chronic or serious illness. HCI Care Services and VNS of Iowa also offers innovative grief support through its hospice program and through Amanda the Panda, which joined the organization in 2014. HCI Care Services and VNS of Iowa also offers dozens of other programs which offer home visits, family support, healthcare, parent education, connection to community resources, flu immunizations and other services to infants, children, young mothers, immigrants and refugees, families and seniors. For more information, call 1-800-806-9934; visit www.hcicareservices.org or www.vnsia.org. HCI Care Services and VNS of Iowa are also on Facebook and Twitter (@HCIVNSIA).