Carnegie Healthcare Corporation provides private duty nursing for medically fragile children and adults across Morris 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 Morris County including Morristown, Parsippany, Randolph, Rockaway, Mount Olive, Denville, and Madison.
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 lets a family keep their child home safely instead of facing a longer hospital stay; for an adult on a ventilator or recovering from serious illness, it means staying in familiar surroundings. 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 Goryeb Children's Hospital at Morristown Medical Center — northern New Jersey's leading specialized pediatric hospital — we coordinate with the discharge team so home nursing is in place when the patient arrives.
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.
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 under P.L. 2012, c. 5, and are an approved NJDOE vendor — so Morris County business administrators, including districts like Morris School District, Parsippany-Troy Hills, and Randolph, can bring us on through existing procurement pathways.
Morris 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, common in communities like Mendham, Chester, and Harding. 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.
A new Morris County case can usually be staffed within a few 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.