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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 at home, and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, medically complex patients including Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), IV potassium infusions, Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) as well as tracheostomy care at home.

In last week’s blog, I talked about,

DO YOU WANT TO GET YOUR LOVED ONE OUT OF HOSPITAL BEFORE CHRISTMAS WITH INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME?

You can check out last week’s blog by clicking on the link below this video:

https://intensivecareathome.com/do-you-want-to-get-your-loved-one-out-of-hospital-before-christmas-with-intensive-care-at-home/

In today’s blog post, I want to answer a question from one of our clients and the question today is 

Can My Husband Go Home with a Tracheostomy After Months in Hospital? Who’s Going to Pay for It?

Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies at home, and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, medically complex patients including Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), IV potassium infusions, Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) as well as tracheostomy care at home.

Now, in today’s blog, I want to answer another question from Jessica who asks, “Can my husband who has a tracheostomy receive care from home? He’s been stuck in hospital for months. What is covered by his insurance or what other options do we have? We are in Melbourne, Australia.”

So, here is how we can help your husband, Jessica. So, if he’s stuck in hospital with a tracheostomy, of course, he can’t go home because there are no services at home or no professional services at home that can look after him besides Intensive Care at Home because we bring the intensive care into the home with critical care nurses with a minimum of two years critical care nursing experience, which is what is required as per evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines, which you can look up on our website at intensivecareathome.com. So, it’s got to be safe when your husband can go home with 24-hour nursing care and we can make that safe for you.

So, how is he covered? Well, if he’s got private health insurance, his private health insurance may cover it or if your husband is less than 65 years old, the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) will cover it right for nursing care, 24 hours a day.

Now, he may have also other insurance. I am not sure. I don’t know how the situation. Maybe it was a work accident or a car accident, God forbid, or he’s a DVA veteran, then it is often covered by those funding bodies as well. So, you should definitely reach out to us so that we can help you with the necessary case management or NDIS Support Coordination which we’re offering as well. We have our own NDIS Level 2 and Level 3 Support Coordinator that can help you with the NDIS application and the relevant funding.

So, it’s quite simple, 24-hour nursing care at home for your hospital so you can finally leave hospital and go home with our service Intensive Care at Home. It’s bread and butter for us. We’ve done it so many times, helped with the funding. Please contact us if you need any help there by either calling me on 041-094-2230 if you are in Australia. That’s again, 041-094-2230 if you’re in Australia or send me an email to [email protected].

There’s also information on our website for the NDIS, how to go about it. But if you contact me, then I can set you up with our NDIS Support Coordinator as well and help you with the funding.

We can also negotiate with the hospital. The hospital might have an interest in getting your husband home because it’s costing them a lot of money by having a patient in hospital for long periods of time. As a matter of fact, it’s costing them a fortune and they can’t use the bed that is needed for other patients in hospital. So, I hope that helps.

Now, if you have a loved one in intensive care or you want to go home in a similar situation, if you are ventilated, have a tracheostomy, or if you don’t have a tracheostomy, but you are ventilated with BIPAP or CPAP, if you need home TPN, if you need Home IV infusions, IV antibiotics, IV potassium, we can help you with any of it.

If you want to find out how to get funding for our service and how it all works, once again, please contact me on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send me an email to [email protected].

Also, have a look at our case studies because there we highlight more about what we do for our clients and how clients can live at home with ventilation and tracheostomies, Home TPN, or if they’re not ventilated, live at home with tracheostomies.

If you’re at home already and you have insufficient support for your critically loved one at home or if you are a patient yourself or you have insufficient funding, you have a team that is not reliable. Please contact us for that as well. We can help you with any of it.

Now, if you are an Intensive Care Nurse or a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse or ED Nurse with a minimum of two years ICU, pediatric ICU, or ED experience and your ideally have a critical care postgraduate qualification, please contact us as well. We are currently hiring ICU and pediatric ICU nurses as well as ed nurses for clients in the Melbourne metropolitan area, Brisbane, and Sydney as well as in remote areas in Victoria as well.

Now, if you are an Intensive Care Doctor, Intensive Care Specialist and you have any bed blocks in your ICU, please contact us. We can help you to manage your exit blocks in ICU better by eliminating long-term stays in ICU. We also have our own intensivist on our books and we’re also currently expanding our intensive care medical team. So, please reach out to us if you’re interested in doing some work for us as well.

If you’re a Hospital Executive and you’re watching this and you have bed blocks in your hospitals for long-term ventilated patients with tracheostomy, et cetera, we can help you managing your beds in hospital.

If you are an NDIS Support Coordinator and you have questions about our service, if you don’t know how to obtain funding for nursing care through the NDIS, please contact us. We have heaps of experience with the NDIS and nursing care.

So, we are NDIS, TAC (Transport Accident Commission), and DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) approved community nursing service provider in Australia. We’re also iCare in New South Wales and NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland) approved in Queensland as well.

Again, we are also providing Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS support coordination. If you are interested in that and you need that for your love or for yourself, please reach out to me as well.

Now, thank you so much for watching.

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Thanks for watching.

This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I will talk to you in a few days.

Take care for now.