Carnegie Healthcare Corporation provides private duty nursing for medically fragile children and adults across Passaic County NJ — extended-hour and overnight shifts at home, a dedicated nurse during the school day, or both. Carnegie Healthcare is a New Jersey-registered Health Care Service Firm and an enrolled NJ Medicaid/NJ FamilyCare private duty nursing provider serving pediatric and adult clients statewide., and we can place nursing in communities across Passaic County including Paterson, Clifton, Wayne, Passaic, Little Falls, Ringwood, and West Milford.
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 can keep a family together at home instead of facing a long 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 St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Paterson — a state-designated children's hospital serving Passaic County — we coordinate with the discharge team so home nursing is ready 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 Passaic County business administrators, including districts like Paterson, Clifton, and Wayne, can bring us on through existing procurement pathways.
Passaic County spans a wide payer mix. In communities like Wayne and the northern suburbs, we bill commercial insurance out-of-network with single-case agreements when in-network options are thin. We also accept NJ FamilyCare/Medicaid, common across Paterson and Passaic City, for patients who meet skilled-need criteria — and for students, district-funded placement when the IEP team requires a 1:1 nurse.
Staffing availability depends on the patient’s clinical needs, required schedule, authorization status, location, and nurse availability. Our intake team will review the request and explain the next steps.
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.