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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 tracheostomy and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality care for our clients and for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. Otherwise medically complex adults and children including Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) as well as looking after patients, 24 hours a day, at home that are non-ventilated but have a tracheostomy. We also provide central line, PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line, Hickman’s line, port catheter management at home including now home potassium infusions as well.
In last week’s blog, I talked about,
ANOTHER PALLIATIVE CARE SUCCESS STORY FOR AN INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME CLIENT
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
My Father Had a Large Stroke, Can’t Manage His secretions & is Ventilated. I Like to Bring Him Home!
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomy and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality care for our clients and for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. Otherwise medically complex adults and children including Home TPN (total parenteral nutrition), Home BIPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) as well as looking after patients, 24 hours a day, at home that are non-ventilated but have a tracheostomy. We also provide central line, PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line, Hickman’s line, port catheter management at home including now home potassium infusions as well.
So, in today’s video, I want to answer a question from one of our readers and prospect who says, “My dad had a large stroke. It affected his right side. He cannot manage his secretions and ended up with a pneumonia and now he’s on a ventilator with the tracheostomy. I would like to bring him home.” Well, that’s only a fair comment and this question comes from Teresa.
Teresa, this is only a fair question to ask if he had a large stroke. I know from your email; he’s been in ICU now for quite some time for quite a few weeks. I know what your days look like. You are stuck in intensive care as a visitor. You and your family are stuck in intensive care as a visitor. You feel like you’re living there. You probably can’t see your dad moving forward as quickly as you would like. You’re probably getting depressed. Your dad is probably getting depressed by being in intensive care.
There’s no light at the end of the tunnel in a situation like that and going home is definitely your best option here because if there’s no progress and he’s confined to a bed in ICU, you might as well go home with our service Intensive Care at Home. Save the cost of an ICU bed by about 50%, have quality care at home. Bring the intensive care into your home, improving your dad’s quality of life, also, improving your and your family’s quality of life, which is very, very important. It’s not a good situation to be in to “live” in an intensive care unit, if you can be at home.
So, how to make this happen? So, I’ve seen that you are in Australia from your email. We are operating currently all-around Australia. We are NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) approved service provider. We are a TAC (Transport Accident Commission) approved service provider in Victoria. We are iCare approved service provider in New South Wales and NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme) approved service provider in Queensland, as well as the DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) approved service provider. We also receive funding through public hospitals, private health care funding, as well as departments of health. So, one way or another, you should reach out to us as quickly as possible so we can take the first steps of getting your father home and continue treatment at home.
Also, we are the only service in Australia that has third-party accreditation for Intensive Care at Home services. There’s no other service in Australia in 2023 that has the same level of industry qualifications than we do, that has the same level of third-party accreditation, that has built the intellectual property that we have built over the last decade in the community to look after intensive care patients at home safely.
So, I encourage you to reach out to me at intensivecareathome.com. Call me on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send me an email to info at intensivecareathome.com.
Now, if you have a loved one in intensive care and you are in a similar situation or your loved one is on a ward with a tracheostomy, on BIPAP, CPAP, Home TPN. Sometimes patients are not necessarily in intensive care, but they’re sitting on a ward, they can’t go home because of lack of services, or the hospital doesn’t know about us, reach out to us and we can help you get your loved one home or if you’re a patient yourself and you’re stuck in a hospital, reach out to us as quickly as possible.
Now, we also provide NDIS Specialist Support Coordination and support coordination. If you are looking to get on the NDIS, we can help you with that. If you are an NDIS Support Coordinator already, and you are looking for nursing care, especially when it comes to tracheostomy ventilation, TPN, potassium infusions, CPAP, BIPAP, ventilation, home seizure management, and you’re looking for nursing care at home for your participants. Please reach out to us as well. If you need help with the advocacy, I encourage you to reach out to us as well. We have been involved in the advocacy with most of our clients as well.
Again, if you are unsure about your NDIS nursing care funding and plan, please reach out to us as well because again, we can provide Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS Support Coordination as well. We can also provide an NDIS nursing assessment as well.
If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change. Please contact us. We’re looking for critical care nurses with a minimum of two years ICU, pediatric ICU, or ED experience. Ideally, with the postgraduate critical care qualification. We are currently hiring in Melbourne Sydney, Brisbane, but also in Albury Wodonga, on the Victoria, New South Wales border.
We are also currently providing an emergency department bypass service for the Western Sydney Local Area Health District in New South Wales. So, we can also help your ED and your ICU as well by keeping your ICU and ED beds empty by sending our critical care nurses into the home.
Now, if you are in intensive care specialist, I know you have bed locks in your ICU or you might have patients sitting on your hospital ward with a tracheostomy and they can’t go anywhere, but you might still be overseeing them. We can help you empty those beds and provide quality of life and in some instances, quality of end of life at home, instead of a hospital or an ICU bed, which is (A), more cost-effective, (B), freeze up your hospital beds and see it’s what patients and families want. So, it’s overall a win-win situation. So, please reach out to us.
If you’re an intensive care specialist and you are looking for a career change and you want to work with us, we want to hear from you as well. We are currently expanding our medical team as well.
If you are a hospital executive watching this, I know you have bed blocks in your hospital, in your ICUs and we can help you to free up those beds, free up your bed capacities, free up your resources, and partner with your consumers who want to be at home. They don’t want to be in a hospital, and we can help you with achieving your goals as well.
Now, thank you so much for watching.
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Thank you so much for watching.
This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I will talk to you in a few days.
Take care for now.
Now, if you have a loved one in intensive care and you want to go home with our service intensive care at home and if you want to find out how to get funding for our service and how it all works, please contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website, or send me an email to [email protected]. That’s Patrik, just with a K at the end.
Please also have a look at our case studies because there we highlight more about what we can do for clients, how clients can live at home with ventilation and tracheostomies and you can look at our case studies as well at our service section.
Intensive care at home Case studies
And if you are at home already and you need support for your critically ill loved one at home, and you have insufficient support or insufficient funding, please contact us as well. We can help you with all of that.
And if you are an intensive care nurse or a pediatric intensive care nurse with a minimum of two years, ICU or pediatric ICU experience, and you ideally have a critical care certificate, please contact us as well. Check out our career section on our website. We are currently hiring ICU and pediatric ICU nurses for clients in the Melbourne metropolitan area, Northern suburbs, Sunbury, Bendigo, Mornington Peninsula, Bittern, Patterson Lakes, Frankston area, South Gippsland, Drouin, Warragul, Trida, Trafalgar and Moe as well as Wollongong in New South Wales.
www.intensivecareathome.com/careers
So we are also an NDIS, TAC (Victoria) and DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) approved community service provider in Australia. Also have a look at our range of full service provisions.
Thank you for watching this video and thank you for tuning into this week’s blog.
This is Patrik from Intensive Care at Home, and I’ll see you again next week in another update.