Carnegie Healthcare Corporation provides private duty nursing in Burlington 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 Mount Laurel, Evesham, Willingboro, Moorestown, Medford, Burlington Township, and the surrounding 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 a facility. Our Burlington 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 from the CHOP pediatric program at Virtua Mount Holly, or from Children's Regional Hospital at Cooper in Camden — 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 — trach 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.
For Burlington County districts — including the Lenape Regional High School District, Mount Laurel, Evesham, Willingboro, Medford, and Moorestown — our clinical manager reviews the IHP with the district's certified school nurse, joins IEP meetings, and documents through the district's system. Carnegie Healthcare 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 Burlington County reach us through several paths. We bill commercial insurance out-of-network with single-case agreements when in-network pediatric or adult PDN options are thin — common for families in the Moorestown and Medford area. 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. Our intake team reviews the 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.