Carnegie Healthcare Corporation provides private duty nursing for medically fragile children and adults across Bergen County NJ — 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 statewide, and we can place nursing in communities across Bergen County including Hackensack, Paramus, Ridgewood, Fort Lee, Teaneck, Englewood, and Mahwah.
At home, private duty nursing means a licensed nurse with your family for the shift — 4, 8, 12, sometimes 24 hours a day — not a brief visit. For a medically complex child, it often lets a parent sleep or return to work instead of providing round-the-clock care alone. For an adult on a ventilator, with a progressive condition, or after a long hospital stay, it means remaining safely at home. Our nurses provide airway and tracheostomy care, ventilator monitoring, tube feeds, seizure response, IV therapy, and continuous assessment on the shift schedule the plan of care requires. For children discharged from Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center or another regional program, we can coordinate with the discharge team so home nursing is ready when the patient arrives.
For students whose medical needs exceed what a building's shared nurse can safely provide, we place a dedicated RN or LPN with one child throughout the school day — managing tracheostomy suctioning and vent settings, 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.
Carnegie Healthcare contracts with New Jersey school districts as a related-service vendor for a specific student or as substitute school-nurse coverage. Our clinical manager reviews the IHP with the district's certified school nurse, joins IEP meetings, and documents through the district's system. We are listed in the NJ DHS Directory of Clinical Nursing Service Providers for Medically Fragile Students under P.L. 2012, c. 5, and are an approved NJDOE vendor — so Bergen County business administrators can bring us on through existing procurement pathways.
Bergen County has one of the strongest commercial payer mixes in the state, so many families reach us through commercial insurance — we bill out-of-network with single-case agreements when in-network pediatric or adult PDN options are limited, which is common. We also accept NJ FamilyCare/Medicaid for patients who meet skilled-need criteria, and for students, 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 order, plan of care, and insurance and tells you honestly what path fits.
We can typically begin a new Bergen County case within a few weeks of receiving orders and insurance authorization. Call Carnegie Healthcare Corporation at (609) 530-1800 to speak with a nurse manager, or email contact@carnegiehealthcare.com to send the physician's order and plan of care. We'll tell you within one business day whether we can staff the case and what the next step is.