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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 services for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and medically complex patients at home including BIPAP, CPAP, Home TPN, Home IV antibiotics, Home potassium and magnesium infusions as well as seizure management.

Now, in today’s blog post, I actually want to talk about something very exciting. Finally, Intensive Care at Home is also offering NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) Specialist Support Coordination, which means Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS Support Coordination.

Now we are really thrilled to share that we now offer Level 2 Support Coordination and Level 3 Specialist NDIS Support Coordination. We have now a specialist team with a strong background in the health disability and advocacy fields. This means we know all the ins and outs of the NDIS. We understand complex requirements and legislation. We are dedicated to delivering a person-centered approach with our clients.

Our goal is to simplify their NDIS journey and offer them a wide range of support options with our large network of service providers.

 

What is NDIS Support Coordination?

 

When a participant receives the NDIS plan, they may have funds allocated for a Support Coordinator. Intensive Care at Home is a registered support coordination provider under the NDIS. This means we can work with funded participants to help them understand their plan and maximize their funding by implementing relevant services to achieve their goals.

 

What is Level 3 Specialist Support Coordination?

 

Participants of the NDIS who are in exceptionally complex situations, which is most of our clients can be funded for Specialist Support Coordination. Intensive Care at Home have dedicated Specialist Support Coordinators who have relevant skills and experience working with individuals who require this level of support. Our NDIS Specialist Support Coordinators can work with participants and their care teams to address barriers, implement services and achieve our participants goals.

 

How can the Specialist Support Coordinator help with Intensive Care at Home?

 

Now, since the beginning of Intensive Care at Home in 2012, we have found over and over again that most Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS Support Coordinators, lack the insights required to successfully advocate for 24/7 intensive care nursing at home for NDIS participants adults and children requiring invasive mechanical ventilation with tracheostomy, tracheostomy without ventilation, noninvasive mechanical ventilation on BiPAP or CPAP, Home TPN or PN and/or intravenous fluids with central line, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line or Hickman’s line management.

Now TPN stands for Total Parenteral Nutrition also known for intravenous nutrition.

Also, other conditions are complex seizure management at home, as well as palliative care at home. This includes but is not limited to conditions such as cerebral palsy, Rett syndrome, Motor Neurone Disease, Guillain Barre syndrome, spinal muscular atrophy, Duchenne syndrome, acquired brain injuries, traumatic brain injuries, high spinal injuries, Level C1 to Level C4, requiring invasive and noninvasive ventilation and/or cough assist therapy.

In our experience, some Support Coordinators lack the insight and drive to advocate for the right level of support that is needed for our highly vulnerable NDIS participants. This has often led to extended and unnecessary hospital stays for NDIS participants.

In some cases, the lack of funding has led to NDIS participants dying at home or in hospital due to insufficient funding from the agency, we could no longer see this happening. So we have built our own team.

 

So what is our strength?

 

In our team of highly experienced NDIS Support Coordinators and hundreds of years of ICU and pediatric ICU nursing experience employed on our team, we are bridging the gap between disability and health as we have the best of both worlds on our team combined. This brings Intensive Care at Home in a unique position where we can successfully advocate for your 24/7 NDIS funded nursing care for your loved one’s condition and disability.

 

What if I don’t have an NDIS plan yet?

 

No problem at all. We can provide support and advice to individuals needing assistance with accessing the NDIS. Please get in touch with us and we can set up a consultation and help to get you started.

 

So, this is really exciting news for us that we can finally offer NDIS Level 2 and Level 3 Support Coordination for the reasons that I just outlined.

So now if you have a loved one in intensive care or in the respiratory ward in a hospital or you are at home already and your loved one is ventilated, has a tracheostomy or doesn’t have a tracheostomy, but it’s ventilated, needs TPN, needs IV fluids, needs palliative care, please reach out to us. We can help you one way or another, whether you’re in a hospital or at home with insufficient support, whether it is with nursing or whether it is with Support Coordination or whether it’s a combination of both.

Also, if you are an intensive care specialist or an intensive care nurse, and you know of patients in your ICU and you have bed blocks and you would benefit from our service and the patients would benefit from our service including how to obtain NDIS funding, I encourage you to reach out to us as well.

Now, if you are an NDIS Support Coordinator and you have an NDIS participant, that needs Intensive Care at Home for mechanical ventilation, tracheostomy and the list goes on, please contact us as well.

We can also help with nursing funding through the NDIS. If you don’t have that experience to advocate for the nursing care side of things. We have done it over and over again. Now, if you are an intensive care nurse and you’re looking for a career change, we currently have jobs for CCRNS with a minimum of two years ICU or ED experience in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Now, if you’re an Intensive Care Specialist and you’re looking for a career change, we are currently expanding our medical team as well. We want to hear from you. And if you are a hospital executive and you know about your bed blocks in ICU in emergency as well on your respiratory wards or in any other wards, we can help you manage and eliminate those bed blocks by looking at an earlier discharge because we have critical care nurses at home that make it safe to discharge patients from ICU or from other high acuity areas in the hospital, free up your beds, improve the quality of life for our clients and of course, save the system a lot of money and other resources.

Now, we are currently operating all around Australia in all major capital cities including rural and regional areas. We are a TAC (Transport Accident Commission) in Victoria, NDIS approved, iCare approved, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland) approved, as well as DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) approved service provider.

We are also having received funding through public hospitals and departments of health. So please contact us one way or another.

Now, I really want to thank you for watching this video today. I also want to let you know that we do NDIS nursing assessments.

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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.