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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 at home whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies at home, also otherwise medically complex adults and children at home including Home BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), Home CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), home tracheostomy care when adults and children are not ventilated, also Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition) . We also provide IV potassium, IV magnesium infusions at home, as well as IV antibiotic infusions at home. We also provide port management, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, Hickman’s line management as well as palliative care services at home, which also includes ventilation weaning at home.
We are also providing an emergency department bypass service where we send our critical care nurses into the home to avoid emergency department readmissions.
Now, today I have a question from Jennifer who says,
“Hi Patrik,
We are looking for critical care nurses to take care for our ventilator-dependent and tracheostomy, 17-year-old daughter with SMA Type 1, SMA stands for spinal muscular atrophy. We’re needing a 24-hour roster with critical care nurses. Our daughter is still in ICU. She has a NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) plan, and she is allowed to go home with critical care nurses and can leave ICU. We can’t wait because we’ve been stuck in hospital for a really long time.
Can Intensive Care at Home help?”
Absolutely, Intensive Care at Home can help with the situation like that. We’ve been looking after many SMA clients over the years, some of them with tracheostomy and ventilation, some of them without a tracheostomy and BIPAP, but also needing a cough assist machine and having a PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) tube often for feeding.
So, this is absolutely right up our alley. You’ve come to the right place with Intensive Care at Home. We can find you the right team for your daughter to take her home safely from ICU with critical care nurses. So, I can only encourage you that we get on the phone as quickly as possible. I don’t want to make this longer than necessary today because really that is right up our alley.
We’ve been looking after long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies for over a decade now since 2012 here in Australia and we can do the same for you here, Jennifer. We would love to help you. We will find the right staff for you that are the right fit for your family and for your daughter, of course, that can work with her, improve her quality of life at home, make sure she can stay at home predictably and have community access. If that is what you and your daughter want, of course, living the best quality of life at home instead of being stuck in intensive care, which sounds to me like is what’s happening at the moment.
It sounds to me like you’ve got funding in place already, but if you need help with funding, we can certainly help you with that. We’ve been successfully involved with the advocacy for our clients from Day 1. We’ve been writing many, many nursing assessments for the NDIS but also for the funding bodies that always turns the needle for funding.
Now, with Intensive Care at Home, we are currently operating all around Australia. We are in all major capital cities as well as in regional and rural areas. We are a NDIS approved service provider all around Australia. We are a TAC (Transport Accident Commission) approved service provider and WorkSafe approved service provider in Victoria, iCare in New South Wales, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme) in Queensland, as well as 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 private health funds. So, reach out to us if you need help.
Our website is intensivecareathome.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected].
If you’re at home already and you’re in a similar situation that Jennifer is in, and you have insufficient support because your loved one is going back to ICU all the time, or if you’re watching this and you’re going back to ICU all the time, or your team just isn’t skilled enough to manage a ventilator and a tracheostomy, you’ve come to the right place here because we exclusively employ critical care nurses that are ventilator and tracheostomy competent. As a matter of fact, we are employing hundreds of years of intensive care and critical care nursing experience combined in the community.
We are the only service in Australia, as of 2024 that actually has accreditation for Intensive Care at Home nursing services. No other service in Australia has the accreditation that is actually necessary to provide safe and accredited services for ventilation and tracheostomy. We have built all the intellectual property that is necessary to keep our clients at home predictably, keep them home out of ICU, and maximize their quality of life, and in some instances, quality of end of life.
Now, we are also providing Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS Support Coordination. So, if you need more funding and your NDIS support coordinator is telling you, you can’t get more funding, I encourage you to reach out to us. We provide Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS support coordination; Amanda is our NDIS support coordinator. We are also providing NDIS nursing assessments for our clients, or if you’re a NDIS support coordinator watching this and you need NDIS nursing assessments or any other assessments for any other funding bodies, please let us know and contact us at intensivecareathome.com.
If you’re a NDIS support coordinator and you’re looking for funding for your NDIS participants and for nursing services, of course, please reach out to us as well, but we can also help you with funding, for NDIS, for nursing. Like I said, we’ve been involved in the advocacy for a long time.
If you are a critical care nurse and you’re watching this, we are currently having jobs for critical care nurses with a minimum of two years critical care nursing experience in ICU, pediatric ICU, and ED, ideally with a postgraduate critical care qualification and with a minimum of two years critical care nursing experience. We are currently having jobs in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Albury, Wodonga, in Bendigo in Country Victoria, as well as in Warragul in Country Victoria, we want to hear from you.
We are looking for critical care nurses who want to complement our team, people who are team players and people who are looking for regular work. We are a service provider, not an agency. We offer a tailor-made solution for our clients and that includes regular staff, staff that want to work regularly with our clients, that give us regular availabilities; that is what our clients want. If you are looking for work where you come and go, Intensive Care at Home is not the place for that. We need regular availabilities. We want to build relationships with our clients, but we also want to build relationships with our staff.
If you’re an intensive care specialist or an ICU consultant and you want a career change, we are currently expanding our medical team as well. Please reach out to us at intensivecareathome.com.
If you are an intensive care specialist and ICU consultant and you have bed blocks in your ICU, which I know you do because I have worked in critical care in hospitals for 20 years as well, I also encourage you to reach out to us as well. We can help you eliminate those bed blocks, but more importantly, we can improve the quality of life and quality of end of life for some of your patients and families and you won’t even pay 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 bed blocks in ICU, pediatric ICU, respiratory wards, and ED (emergency departments).
If you’re watching this and you’re in the U.K. or in the U.S. and you need help, please reach out to us as well. We can help you there privately.
Once again, our website is intensivecareathome.com. You can call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected]
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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.