Health Care
Prophetstown has medical facilities conveniently located within the city.
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Prophetstown Family Health Center, a subsidiary of CGH Medical Center in Sterling, is located one block east of the highway at 212 E. Railroad St. Dr. Helen Kapsas holds her family practice here. CGH Medical Center is a 99 bed facility located 20 miles from Prophetstown. CGH offers a full range of services including emergency, diagnostic, lab, physical therapy, obstetrics center, surgical, pediatric, and critical care. Morrison Community Hospital is located 15 miles from town, offers a 24 hour family health care clinic. Dr. Sherwood Bryan, DDS has his office at 108 W. 3rd St. |
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Prophetstown Riverview Good Samaritan Center, Jeanette Soleta, Administrator, 310 Mosher Drive (815-537-5175) offer : Skilled Medicare, Intermediate care, Rehabilitation services, Private & medicaid, and Senior Living Apartments. A thoroughly modern 68 bed facility. Good Samaritan offers a comprehensive program of services structured to allow the individual to reach his or her highest potential. Private and semi-private rooms are comfortably furnished. Residents are encouraged to bring personal items to make them feel at home. The Center includes a beauty and barber shop, as well as a beautifully furnished formal lounge, a large courtyard completely landscaped and fenced for residents safety. There is 24 hour nursing care with on-call doctors and emergency services available at all times. |
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Winning Wheels, located at 701 E. 3rd St. (815-537-5168) is a private, non-profit specialized long-term facility, committed to restoring physically disabled, mobility impaired young adults to their fullest achievable potential. The primary goal of the facility is to decrease client dependency on institutional care through the provision of the rehabilitative services which foster the development of skills designed to train and assist the individual to live a independently as possible. |
The Winning Wheels facility, Prophetstown’s largest employer, opened in 1979 after nine years of
dedication to house eighty physically disabled, but mentally alert young people with limited mobility. The organization today includes five primary sites, the first being this unique central facility. In the dining room, tables can be hoisted to the ceiling leaving the area free for the activities. Applications are received from many states, as testimony, two years before the completion of the building. Residents from 57 different communities were received. The
residents are all dependent upon wheelchairs.
Twelve years after the completion of the original building, S.T.R.I.V.E. was completed, a 16-bed
intermediate care facility, a stepping stone in the
commitment to rehabilitation. Frontier Hollow”, eight duplexes opened in
1995 to accommodate residents ready to test independent living, with a staff
Homemaker to check daily on progress and offer guidance. The Lyndon Progress
Center houses the Developmental Training program, cognitive rehab,
vocational training, (including a computer lab), a gymnasium and a day care
center used by employees and area families. Also in the building are the
offices of American Health Enterprises, a corporation retained in 1985 to
manage the entire operation.