Iowa Alliance in Home Care:
IOWA’S HOME HEALTH CARE VOICE

The Iowa Association for Home Care (IAHC) is a non-profit trade association whose membership is composed of home health care agencies. These agencies are private, public and voluntary non-profit; proprietary; and individually sponsored, community and county based.

The association, which is headquartered in Des Moines and has a full-time staff, exists for the singular purpose of representing the interest of Iowa’s home health care agencies concerning those issues which the individual agency cannot financially, or possess the necessary expertise to address.

The association is governed by a 15-person board of directors and has 6 standing committees. The major areas of association common interest, as set forth by the board of directors, are (1) member continuing education, (2) consumer education/public relations, and (3) legislative and regulatory affairs. Regarding the latter, the association has a full-time lobbyist who works with the state legislature and the various regulatory departments to further the interests of home health care in Iowa. The association also has on retainer the Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors and Roberts law firm. The lead IAHC attorney is J.R. “Lynn” Böes.

The association meets quarterly (March (annual meeting), June (trade show), September, December) with the six IAHC districts meeting in April and October. In addition, the association hosts numerous continuing education seminars on topics of timely interest to home health care agency administrators and staff.

The association is affiliated with the National Association for Home Care, the nation’s home health care voice, located in Washington, D.C. The national association hosts and annual convention and trade show, and spring legislative conference.

The Iowa Association for Home Care can only address those issues that members bring to its attention. Therefore, it behooves every home health care agency in the state to belong to the association to ensure the issues that are of concern to them are collectively addressed. For more information on benefits of membership contact the association at: