Services

Our Services

Optimae LifeServices is an Iowa-based health care and human services leader in the state of Iowa. Established in 1987, our services have grown to include community-based, behavioral health, home health, rehabilitation and residential services. We serve more than 5,000 Iowans every year primarily in central, southeastern, northeastern and south-central Iowa.

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Community Services

Whether our customers live independently, receiving hourly services, or live in an Optimae-provided home, receiving residential site services, our teams provide the supports and continuum of care necessary for them to become successful members of their community, attain valued roles and live as independently as possible.

Optimae’s Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) offer a personalized approach to providing services for adults with intellectual disabilities. We provide individualized support that allows our customers to experience success and satisfaction in the community-based living environment of their choice. We also offer Home-Based Habilitation Services (HBHS) that assist individuals with serious and persistent mental illness acquire, retain and improve skills for living in the community. Click below to find out more about this and our Supported Community Living Services, Transitional Age Youth (TAY), Intensive Residential Service Homes (IRSH), Supported Employment and more.

Behavioral Health Services

Optimae Behavioral Health Services provides therapy, psychiatric medication evaluation and management, and skill-building supports in our central and southeastern Iowa offices in-person and via telehealth, with service delivery varying by location. Our highly trained professionals, which include therapists and psychiatric prescribers, incorporate Optimae’s core values of choice, respect, teamwork and education into the services we offer to help children, adolescents, adults, couples and families improve their mental health and create happier and healthier lives. Our services are strengths-based and positively oriented.

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Home Health Services

Optimae Home Health Services provides home health care services that allow our customers to continue living in their homes while receiving medical care. We offer skilled nursing and home health aides, as well as physical, occupational and speech therapy. We operate in a 22-county region in central and southeastern Iowa. Counties served in central Iowa include Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Polk, Story and Warren. In southeastern Iowa, we serve Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Mahaska, Muscatine, Van Buren, Wapello and Washington counties.

Rehabilitation Services

At Optimae Rehabilitation Services, we are passionate about helping people acquire or relearn the skills they need to lead productive, independent lives through occupational, physical and speech therapy services. Our practitioners address barriers through interventions focused on enhancing existing skills and promoting wellness, as well as the restoration of lost skills and abilities, and the modification of a person’s environment or activity. These services are provided from our outpatient clinic in Des Moines’ East Village, an individual’s home or within the community. Group and individual sessions are offered in Dallas, Jasper, Polk, Story and Warren counties.

Supported Employment

Supported Employment is an integral part of Optimae’s aim to provide our customers with a continuum of care. Individuals with mental illness and intellectual disabilities often struggle to find employment. Here we focus on community-based supported employment, job coaching and providing employment opportunities and valued community roles through our Optimae microbusinesses.

Our Motto

Our motto, which serves as our tagline, conveys a central and enduring message. It’s our pledge to be at the side and on the side of our customers by providing a robust family of services that deliver care in a holistic and collaborative way across our organization.

At your side. On your side.®

Want to join our team?

At Optimae LifeServices, we have a team of more than 1,300 people, many of whom have chosen to stay with the organization for decades. If you are looking for a new opportunity with an organization that values choice, respect, teamwork and education, we encourage you to check out our job openings.