Population Health

Clarinda Regional Health Center (CRHC) and their population health team are here for you and the community. Although the term “population health” is widely used in healthcare, it isn’t widely understood outside of healthcare or in local communities. Our population health department is here to serve as a strategic platform to improve health outcomes for defined groups of people. 

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Our team of nurses’ work with patients to address acute care needs in order to prevent more concerning healthcare incidents from occurring and helping those patients access programs or resources that they may not know about. Over recent years health care systems and hospitals have learned that in order to reach a larger portion of their patient base they must work with local employers. So, our population health team is also extending communications to businesses in our community to give them access to beneficial programs and information, such as:

►     Community wellness classes 
►     Information on Preventative screenings
►     Health fairs for local businesses/employees
►     Increased access to immunizations, flu shot clinics, etc.
►     Education & knowledge about individuals’ health


For Our Medicare Patients:

As a Medicare recipient you are entitled to a one-time, no-cost, preventative visit with a medical provider within your first year of being on Part B. This is a short 30 minute visit focused on preventative care and developing a plan to keep you up to date on all the services Medicare offers:


►      Annual Wellness Visits

►      Chronic Care Management Program

►      Preventative Services

►      Senior Health Information Insurance Program (SHIIP)

►      Other Medicare Resources


For more information, contact Lara Nothwehr by email

at lnothwehr@clarindahealth.com or at 712-542-8252

Request a Medicare Visit

Chronic Care Management

As previously mention, if you are a Medicare beneficiary, you would be eligible for CRHC’s Chronic Care Management (CCM) program, which is a patient and family-centered program that assists people living with one more chronic condition better manage their conditions. CRHC Care Coordinators are Registered Nurses that assists these patients by teaching them self-management skills, goal setting for their healthcare, and how to effectively communicate their needs with their primary care providers. They’ll also help direct patients to proper resources they can take advantage of within their community. The CCM program lasts for as long as the patient has two or more chronic illnesses that are expected to last more than 12 months and could potentially place that patient at an increased risk for death or decline of health conditions. You might benefit from this program if you have two or more of the following:

►     Diabetes

►     High Blood Pressure

►     Atrial Fibrillation (A-fib)

►     Chronic Kidney Disease

►     COPD (Chronic Obstructive                         Pulmonary Disease)   

►     Heart Disease

►     Cancer

►     Depression

►     Alzheimer’s or Dementia

►     Osteoarthritis or Rheumatoid                      Arthritis


Services Chronic Care Management Brochure

Serving Our Community

Our Population Health department is responsible for coordinating and organizing seasonal health fairs. Currently, CRHC holds a fall and spring health fair at CRHC, which anyone in the community can sign up for and participate in. Typically, our health fair will include:


►  Blood Draw and Results 

►  Prostate Screen

►  Hemoglobin A1C (Diabetic)

►  Vitamin D 25

►  Colorectal Screen

►  Result interpretation with a provider

►  DXA Body Composition Scan

►  Seasonal Influenza Immunization

Population Health FAQ

  • What is population health?

    According to the CDC, Population Health is, “an interdisciplinary, customizable approach that allows health departments to connect practice to policy for change to happen locally. This approach utilizes non-traditional partnerships among different sectors of the community – public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, etc. – to achieve positive health outcomes. Population health brings significant health concerns into focus and addresses ways that resources can be allocated to overcome the problems that drive poor health conditions in specific populations.

  • How is Population Health different than Public Health?

    According to the CDC, “Public health works to protect and improve the health of communities through policy recommendations, health education and outreach, and research for disease detection and injury prevention. It can be defined as what “we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy”. On the other hand, population health provides “an opportunity for health care systems, agencies and organizations to work together in order to improve the health outcomes of the communities they serve.”

  • How can CRHC’s Population Health Department help me?

    CRHC’s Pop Health Department is working with different groups of people to increase access to healthcare resources and available options to ensure a healthier you! A few of those reasons might be to Disease Management, assistance with government programs, the organization and set up of our health fairs or lab draws, to name a few.