Carnegie Healthcare Corporation provides private duty nursing in Atlantic County NJ for medically fragile children and adults who need skilled 1:1 care — extended-hour and overnight shifts at home, a dedicated nurse during the school day, or both. We are a New Jersey-licensed home health agency (NJ DCA/HCSF) staffing RNs and LPNs, with care available across Egg Harbor Township, Galloway, Hamilton Township, Absecon, Pleasantville, Hammonton, and the surrounding Atlantic County communities.
At home, private duty nursing means a licensed nurse with your family for the shift — 4, 8, 12, sometimes 24 hours a day — rather than a brief visit. For a medically complex child, it often lets a parent sleep or keep working instead of providing round-the-clock care alone. For an adult on a ventilator, with a progressive condition, or recovering from a long hospital stay, it means staying home rather than moving to a facility. Our Atlantic County nurses manage airway and tracheostomy care, ventilator monitoring, G- and J-tube feeds, seizure response, IV therapy, and continuous assessment — on whatever shift schedule the plan of care requires. When a child is discharged home on new equipment, often through the CHOP pediatric program at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, we coordinate the transition so nursing is in place the day they arrive.
For students whose needs exceed what a building's shared nurse can safely manage, we place a dedicated RN or LPN with one child throughout the school day. In Atlantic County schools our nurses routinely manage tracheostomy suctioning and vent settings, G-tube and J-tube feeds and medications, insulin and CGM response, seizure rescue medications, oxygen therapy, and complex safety protocols. Every nurse assigned to a school case completes NJDOE Office of Student Protection (OSP) fingerprinting and criminal-history review before their first day, carries current BLS (PALS where required), and is oriented to your child's specific care plan.
For Atlantic County districts — Egg Harbor Township, Galloway Township, Hamilton Township, Pleasantville, Absecon, Hammonton, and Mainland Regional — our clinical manager reviews the IHP with the district's certified school nurse, joins IEP meetings, and submits daily nursing notes through the district's system. Carnegie is listed in the NJ DHS Directory of Clinical Nursing Service Providers for Medically Fragile Students under P.L. 2012, c. 5, and is an approved NJDOE vendor for dedicated and substitute school nurse placements.
Families in Atlantic County reach us through several paths. We accept NJ FamilyCare/Medicaid Private Duty Nursing which covers medically necessary continuous nursing for patients who meet skilled-need criteria — the most common path in the county. We also bill commercial insurance (AmeriHealth, Horizon BCBSNJ, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare) out-of-network with single-case agreements when in-network pediatric or adult PDN options are thin. For students, a third path is district-funded placement when the IEP team determines a 1:1 nurse is required.
You don't need this figured out before you call. Our intake team reviews the physician's order, plan of care or IHP, and insurance, and tells you honestly what path fits.
Home cases can often be staffed within 1–2 weeks of receiving orders and insurance authorization; school placements within 2–3 weeks once the district contract and IHP are in hand — sometimes faster when a patient is being discharged from the hospital. We recommend starting the conversation as soon as you know nursing will be needed.
Call Carnegie Healthcare at (609) 530-1800 to speak directly with a nurse manager, or email us at contact@carnegiehealthcare.com to send over the physician's order and plan of care. We'll tell you within one business day whether we can staff the case, what the insurance picture looks like, and the next step.