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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 and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality service for our clients as well as for hospitals and intensive care units. We also provide services to adults and children that have a tracheostomy and are not ventilated. We provide services to adults and children that don’t have a tracheostomy but are BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilated, seizure management at home. We also provide Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home potassium infusions, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, Hickman’s line management, as well as IV antibiotics.
In last week’s blog, I talked about,
CAN INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME LOOK AFTER MY MOM (DAD, CHILD, SPOUSE) AT HOME WITH A NASOGASTRIC TUBE?
You can check out last week’s blog by clicking on the link below this video:
In today’s blog post, I want to answer a question from one of our clients and the question today is
Do You Want to Get Your Loved One Out of Hospital Before Christmas with INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality service for our clients as well as for hospitals and intensive care units.
We also provide services to adults and children that have a tracheostomy and are not ventilated. We provide services to adults and children that don’t have a tracheostomy but are BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilated, seizure management at home. We also provide Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home potassium infusions, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, Hickman’s line management, as well as IV antibiotics.
So, in today’s video, I actually want to focus on at the time that we’re in at the moment right before Christmas 2023. What we’ve learned over the years, a lot of hospitals want to get patients out before hospital especially before Christmas and the New Year because they shouldn’t be in hospital, as long as they are medically stable, but especially if they are ventilated, have a tracheostomy, they’re stuck in hospitals, can’t go anywhere but they can go home with our service Intensive Care at Home.
So, if you are watching this and you are a family member or you are a patient, you’re stuck in hospital and you wonder what’s next, especially now before Christmas and you want to go home, I encourage you to reach out to us here at the intensivecareathome.com.
We are currently operating all around Australia in all major capital cities. We are a TAC (Transport Accident Commission) approved service provider in Victoria. We are an NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) approved service provider all around Australia. We are an iCare approved service provider in New South Wales, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland), DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) approved service provider. So, we tap into a variety of funding sources.
We are also engaging with private health funds. We have also received funding through hospitals directly through departments of health. So, don’t worry too much about the funding side of things. We can take care of that. We can negotiate on your behalf. But what is important here is the need for you to go home or for your family member to go home.
Now, the same is applicable if you’re watching this and you are a doctor, you’re a nurse, you are a bed manager in a hospital, you are a Hospital Executive watching this. I know you have bed blocks in your hospitals, particularly in ICU, or anyone that’s stuck with a long-term tracheostomy, long-term ventilation, BIPAP, CPAP management, Home TPN or you have patients on the ward that need TPN long-term, and you might think they can’t go anywhere but to stay in hospital. That is not accurate. We provide home TPN services as well. We can manage central lines at home, PICC lines, Hickman’s lines, ports. We manage all of that at home.
We can help you eliminate your bed blocks especially before Christmas. Nobody wants to be in hospitals for Christmas. We have a highly motivated intensive care nursing workforce that comes into the community to our client’s home.
It’s unmatched in Australia. No other service brings a higher level of skill into the community than we do. We are third-party accredited for intensive care at home nursing. No other service has that intellectual property that we build. Therefore, we can focus on emptying hospital beds with a higher acuity and move them into the community, cutting the cost of an intensive care bed by approximately 50%.
More importantly, free up the bed for hospitals and intensive care units. Most importantly, improve the quality of life or in some instances, quality of end of life for adults and children, especially with tracheostomy and ventilation. That is what we do.
Also, if you are an NDIS Support Coordinator and you’re looking for nursing care for some of your participants, NDIS participants, we can help you. We have many NDIS participants on our books and have done so for many years. If you’re wondering how to get funding for NDIS nursing care in particular, we would love to help because we have a lot of experience how to advocate for NDIS funded nursing.
So, get going before Christmas. Get home. Don’t stay in hospital over the New Year and Christmas period, nobody wants to be there. I know you who are working in a hospital, you don’t want the patients in hospitals over Christmas and New Year because you want to take some time off. I worked in the hospitals long enough to know how they operate as well.
So, I hope that gives you some encouragement and ideas in going home before Christmas with Intensive Care at Home all around Australia. Please contact us on the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected].
We are also providing NDIS Specialist Support Coordination. If you are in need of an NDIS plan, please contact us as well.
Now, also if you’re at home already and you are ventilated, have a tracheostomy or you’re BIPAP, CPAP ventilated without a tracheostomy or if you’re not ventilated or you have a tracheostomy, and you have insufficient support, especially if you are potentially looked after by support workers and they can’t and they shouldn’t do the work with the tracheostomy or ventilation and they are not reliable, please contact us, if you need reliable nursing care at home. We are also providing palliative care at home, end of life care at home. We do that as well for our patients and families.
Now, if you’re watching this, you are an NDIS Support Coordinator, please reach out to us if you need help for your NDIS participants with nursing care or if you need help with funding for NDIS participants for nursing care, we can help you with all of that. We’re also providing NDIS nursing assessments.
If you are an intensive care nurse or a critical care nurse working in hospitals, and you’re looking for a career change and you’re interested in working in the community, please contact us as well. We are looking for experience and committed critical care nurses with a minimum of two years critical care nursing experience to work for us.
Now, we are looking for critical care nursing staff that can give us regular availabilities because our clients want consistencies. We are not an agency. We are a service provider. We have a tailor-made solution for our clients. Therefore, we need staff that can regularly commit to shifts with clients because the clients want a stable and regular team, and we want the same. We don’t want to have people coming and going. So, if that’s you, then this could be a right fit working for us.
If you are an Intensive Care Specialist and you are looking for a career change, we are currently expanding our medical team as well. If you want to work with us as an Intensive Care Specialist, we want to hear from you. Again, contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected] with your CV or your interest.
If you’re a hospital executive, once again, I know you’ve got bed blocks in hospitals or if you’re a bed manager in a hospital, you have bed blocks for patients needing to go home, you should contact us for some solutions how we can help you manage your bed flow or how we can improve your bed flow whilst maintaining quality care in the community. We want to hear from you.
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This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I will talk to you in a few days.
Take care for now.