Carnegie Healthcare Corporation provides private duty nursing for medically fragile children and adults across Ocean 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 Ocean County including Toms River, Brick, Jackson, Lakewood, Manchester, Barnegat, and Little Egg Harbor.
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 child with complex needs, it can mean the difference between managing at home and a prolonged hospital stay; for an adult on long-term ventilator support or recovering from serious illness, it means staying in familiar surroundings. Our nurses handle tracheostomy and airway care, ventilator management, enteral feeds, seizure response, IV therapy, and continuous assessment on the schedule the plan of care sets. For children discharged from K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center — the comprehensive pediatric center serving Ocean and Monmouth counties — we coordinate with the discharge team so home nursing is ready on arrival.
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 Ocean County business administrators, including large districts like Toms River Regional, Brick Township, and Jackson, can bring us on through existing procurement pathways.
Families in Ocean 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. We also bill commercial insurance 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.
A new Ocean 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.