Carnegie Healthcare Corporation provides private duty nursing for medically fragile children and adults across Essex 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 Essex County including Newark, Montclair, Bloomfield, West Orange, Livingston, Millburn/Short Hills, Irvington, and Nutley.
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 means staying home instead of in the hospital; for an adult on long-term ventilator support or recovering from serious illness, it means remaining in familiar surroundings with skilled care on hand. Our nurses manage tracheostomy and airway care, ventilator monitoring, enteral feeds, seizure response, IV therapy, and continuous assessment on the plan-of-care schedule. For children discharged from the Children's Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, 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 Essex County business administrators, including districts like Newark, Millburn, Montclair, and West Orange, can bring us on through existing procurement pathways.
Essex County spans a wide payer mix. In communities like Montclair, West Orange, and Livingston, and Millburn/Short Hills, 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 Newark and Irvington, for patients who meet skilled-need criteria — and for students, district-funded placement when the IEP team requires a 1:1 nurse.
A new Essex 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.