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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. We also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality care for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, also for medically complex patients at home, including Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), Home IV potassium infusions, Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilation, IV antibiotics, but also for adults and children that have a tracheostomy and are not ventilated. We also provide services at home for port management, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, as well as Hickman’s line management. We also provide services for palliative care at home. In essence, we are a genuine alternative for a long term stay in intensive care we are sending critical care nurses in the home, 24 hours a day.
Today, I want to read out another testimonials from one of our happy 24-hour Intensive Care at Home nursing clients. The client had to recently go into hospital for a procedure that could not be done at home and she sent us a glowing testimonial after that because we were supporting her while she was in hospital as well, because her care is so nuanced that she wanted to have her own nurses around that know her very well and know her very nuanced and detailed care needs that the hospitals often don’t get right for a long term chronically ill patients.
Anyway, let me read out the testimonial:
“Hi Patrik and Team,
It looks like that I will be discharged tomorrow, so the roster should continue as normal from my home in the evening. Shanting is with me during the day to help me return home.
I also want to let Intensive Care at Home know that the help that I have received with my time in hospital has been so good. The dedication to me and support received has got me through a very difficult time. Please advise the nurses during this how much appreciated is their hard work and empathy to my condition. Also, to the rostering team for your hard work in listening to my requests for my nurses to come and help me.
Thank you to everyone involved in my care.
You are wonderful and I won’t forget this.”
This is from Annie. So, thank you, Annie for sending through this testimony and thank you for giving us permission to use it as a testimonial on our website. I really appreciate that as well.
It’s really important that families and patients know what help is out there for them, that being confined to an ICU long term or having a tracheostomy or needing BIPAP or CPAP ventilation, needing seizure management at home, needing TPN at Home, IV potassium, IV magnesium infusions, or even needing palliative care at home doesn’t mean you have to be stuck in a hospital until the end, that is not true and at Intensive Care at Home, we make all of that possible for our clients.
You can also have a look at our case studies and read more about what we do. We also have published other testimonials on our website. You can look on our testimonial section as well.
So, if you have a loved one in intensive care or in hospital in a similar situation, I encourage you to reach out to us as well. We can help you to take the same steps that we will take for our client, Annie here, taking her home and supporting her throughout the process so that she doesn’t have to go back to hospital, of course, for things that we can control. For things that we can’t control i.e. if our clients need to go back to hospital for a procedure that can’t be done at home, of course, that is beyond our control but I can confidently say that our clients spent their time at home and not in the hospital. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be Intensive Care at Home, we wouldn’t be naming our service Intensive Care at Home.
If you’re at home already, but you have insufficient support and you realize that whatever support you have is not working for you, you might be going back into hospital or into ICU all the time because the staff can’t keep you at home predictably. You probably don’t have ICU nurses that can provide the highest level of care in a home care environment to keep you home predictably, then I encourage you to reach out to us as well. If you need more funding, please reach out to us as well. Again, we can help you with that.
We’re also providing Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS Support Coordination. If you need more funding, we have our own support coordinator, knowing and understanding your rights with the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme), in particular.
With Intensive Care at Home, we are currently operating all around Australia and in all major capital cities, as well as in regional and rural areas. We are a NDIS approved service provider. We are a TAC (Transport Accident Commission) approved service provider in Victoria, iCare in New South Wales, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme) in Queensland as well as a DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) approved service provider all around Australia. We have also received funding through public hospitals, departments of health, as well as through private health funds. So, please reach out to us if you need help.
Also, our services are evidence-based and what do I mean by that? So, when you look at on our website at intensivecareathome.com and you look on the link, the Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines, you will see that in those guidelines, only critical care nurses with a minimum of two years in ICU, pediatric ICU or ED experience are safe to look after ventilated and tracheostomy clients at home. There’s nothing else that is safe, and I would imagine the ICUs would want the same, they want safe care at home; that’s what we’re here for, we’re an extension of ICU.
We’re also the only service in Australia in 2024 that has achieved third party accreditation for Intensive Care at Home services. So, it’s all evidence-based and it’s all accredited. It’s the best option and it’s the only evidence-based option. If anyone wants to provide care at home with support workers or a general RNs, it’s not evidence-based, it’s dangerous and patients have died because of it.
We are currently also providing an ED emergency department bypass service for the Western Sydney Local Area Health District. So, we’re keeping patients out of the emergency department as well by sending our critical care nurses into the home of these patients.
If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change, we want to hear from you. If you have worked in ICU or pediatric ICU or in ED for a minimum of two years, and you have ideally completed a postgraduate critical care qualification, we want to hear from you. We currently have jobs in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, in Albury, Wodonga on the New South Wales, Victorian border in Bendigo, and in Country Victoria, as well as in Warragul in Country Victoria. We want to hear from you.
Please note that if you are a critical care nurse and you want to work with us, we are not an agency. We are a service provider that has a tailor-made solution or has tailor-made solutions for our clients and that includes regular shifts with regular clients because our clients want the same staff over and over again. They don’t want people coming and going, so only apply for us if you want to commit and if you want to work with our clients regularly and if you want to make a difference to their lives and their family’s lives.
If you’re an intensive care specialist, we are currently also expanding our medical team. We want to hear from you.
If you are an intensive care specialist, looking, watching or reading this and you have bed blocks in your ICU, which I know you do after having worked in ICU for 20 years, we can help you eliminate your bed blocks. We can help you in taking your patients home safely and you don’t even end up paying for it.
If you are a hospital executive watching this, we also want to hear from you because once again, we can help you eliminate your bed blocks in ICU and ED, we want to hear from you as well.
If you are a NDIS Support Coordinator and you’re looking for nursing care for your participants or you’re looking for a NDIS nursing assessment for your participants, or you’re looking for nursing advocacy for your participants, please reach out to us as well. If you don’t know how to get nursing care through the NDIS, we encourage you to reach out to us as well.
You can contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or you can email us to [email protected].
Also, if you’re watching this and you’re in the U.S., you’re in the U.K., and you’re looking for Intensive Care at Home, please reach out to us as well. We can help you privately.
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Thank you so much for watching.
This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I’ll talk to you in a few days.
Take care for now.