DESCRIPTION: Skilled in home nursing health care can be provided to the residents of the Leech Lake Reservation. Community health representatives also provide quality outreach health care services and health promotion/disease prevention services to American Indians and Alaskan Natives within their communities. The program includes home health aid services such as housecleaning, personal grooming, grocery shopping for elders, food distribution delivery, prescription delivery, monitoring vital signs, and respite care services. Also provided are medical transportation services to and from medical appointments and out of town trips with Indian Health Service (IHS) referrals. Services can be denied to people with warrants, incarceration, intoxication, or using illegal drugs, treatment facilities, numerous cancellations.