Pediatric private duty nursing in Cherokee County

Who we serve in Cherokee County

Children under 21 whose day-to-day care needs a nurse or a trained caregiver: a tracheostomy or ventilator, a feeding tube, oxygen, seizure care, or significant help with lifting, positioning and daily activities. There is no fixed list of qualifying diagnoses. Approval turns on how much hands-on care your child needs each day, and Georgia Medicaid decides who is approved, not HeartPath.

Give us your ZIP on the first call and we will tell you exactly what applies to your address.

Where children come home from in Cherokee County

Cherokee sits at the northwest edge of the metro, and both its hospital care and its state programs are organised differently from the counties closer in. If your child is still admitted, call before discharge.

Northside Hospital Cherokee in Canton runs a Level III NICU, expanded to 15 beds in 2024. For a county this far out, that is the difference between staying near home and being sent down 575 for weeks.

Children who need more than that go south to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, usually Scottish Rite in Sandy Springs, which is the closest campus to most of Cherokee.

Babies Can’t Wait in Cherokee County

Cherokee County is served by District 1-2, the North Georgia Health District based in Dalton. Cherokee is not administered out of Atlanta. It sits in the North Georgia Health District with Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens and Whitfield, run from Dalton, and the county health department is in Woodstock.

Babies Can’t Wait is Georgia’s early intervention program for children under three. It runs alongside GAPP rather than instead of it, and a child can be in both. If you are still working out which programs apply, our guide to coming home from the hospital walks through the order they happen in, and Babies Can’t Wait and GAPP explains how the two fit together.

Getting there from Cherokee County

Cherokee is northwest of the perimeter, and coverage there depends on which nurses live nearby at the time.

Care is scheduled around your family, including nights, weekends and overnights. We match nurses to a child and work to keep the same nurse with the same family, because the nurse who knows your child’s baseline is the one who notices the day it changes.

What it costs a family here

Nothing. For children approved through Georgia Medicaid there is no out-of-pocket cost, no copay and no deductible. If you have been told your income is too high for Medicaid, read how Katie Beckett works before you give up on it. That pathway ignores parents’ income entirely and looks only at the child’s medical needs.

Starting from Canton

Call 678-459-2590 or check eligibility online. We talk with you, help get the physician documentation moving, and submit the authorization request to Georgia Medicaid. About 30 days from first call to care starting is typical, though Medicaid sets the pace of its own review. Here is the full timeline.