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Our Licensed Home Health Agency provides a full range of medically necessary services to residents of Republic County regardless of color, race, handicap, or national origin.
Services provided:
- • Skilled Nursing
- • Home Health Aide
- • Homemaking
Home Health Care is recognized as an increasingly important alternative to care as in-patients of a medical facility. It is an effective means of providing health services to those who require intermittent health services. Thus, while receiving quality health care, the individual may remain at home, enjoying a way of life as closely related to normal as possible.
Visits are made as often as therapeutically necessary.
Patient must be under the medical supervision of a licensed physician to receive skilled visits. The physician prescribes and approves the services to be provided.
Patient must be a resident of Republic County.
Referrals may originate with physicians, hospital personnel, families, individuals, and/or other community agencies.
Available third-party payers such as Medicaid or private health insurance are billed for services to eligible patients.
Fee Schedule
There are nominal fees for services. Some fees are on a sliding fee scale, which is based on income and household size. Medicare, Healthwave, and Blue Cross/ Blue Shield are billed for services for which the Health Department/Home Health Agency is a contracted provider. We can bill other insurances but you will need to ask to make sure we accept your insurance.
Confidentiality – All services are confidential.
Who is my Commissioner?
Map of the current commission districts: Republic County Commissioner Districts.
The Republic County Commission meets Mondays, barring holidays, 8:30 - noon. For Monday holidays, the Commission meeting is moved to the following Tuesday, 8:30 - noon.
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The Commissioners' weekly Agenda is published on the Friday afternoon preceding the meeting.
Click here Weekly Agenda for a copy of the upcoming or most recent meeting Agenda.
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Our Responsibilities
Our office maintains maps of the county, ownership and valuation records of each property in the county. By Kansas statute our office is responsible for the valuation of all property in Republic County, which includes real estate, personal property, oil and gas, and severed minerals.
Please contact our office with any questions you may have about your property.
About the County Clerk’s Office
The County Clerk, an Elected Position, plays a unique role in County Government and in the Kansas Constitution. This is the Office of Record for the Board of County Commissioners and acts as the official secretary to the Board of Commissioners; keeps the seal, records the papers of the board, signs the records of proceedings, and attests the same with the official seal of the county, and is the official repository for all board records and county documents.
Tax Administration – The County Clerk must finalize the assessed values on all real estate and personal property in the county and maintains tax accounts. The County Clerk sets the county wide mill levy and after the tax levies are set, special assessments are applied, the County Clerk prepares the tax roll and tax statements for the Treasurer to print.
Financial Administration – The County Clerk, by law shall observe all claims against the county, certify that the budget is available to cover all claims, and then charges the County Treasurer with those claim payments. The Clerk has a good working knowledge of all County Department Budgets and expenditures in order to present the claims to the County Commissioners. The Clerk keeps a clear audit trail for the accounting of all receipts and disbursements. The Clerk must Balance, Distribute and Certify the Motor Vehicle Tax.
Public Information Officer – The County Clerk is the “Freedom of Information Officer. ” Provides educational materials and information concerning the “Open Records Act,” assists any public agency and members of the general public to resolve disputes and responds to inquires relating to it.
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