Pediatric private duty nursing in Cobb County

Who we serve in Cobb 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.

Families in Cobb often reach us after a discharge from one of the metro children’s hospital campuses. If your child is still admitted, that is the best possible time to call, because the documentation can move while they are still inpatient instead of after you get home.

Where children come home from in Cobb County

Most medically fragile children in Cobb come home from one of the two Wellstar campuses in the county rather than from downtown. If your child is still admitted at either one, that is the best possible time to call, because the documentation can move while they are still inpatient instead of after you get home.

Wellstar Kennestone in Marietta runs a Level III NICU and opened a 49-bed unit in its Yellow Tower in 2026. Wellstar Cobb in Austell runs a Level III NICU as well. Between them they cover most of the county’s higher-risk deliveries without a family having to leave Cobb.

Children who need pediatric surgical or subspecialty care are generally transferred to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, either Scottish Rite in Sandy Springs or Arthur M. Blank Hospital on North Druid Hills Road. That transfer is often the point where a family first hears the words “home nursing,” and it is early enough to start.

Babies Can’t Wait in Cobb County

Cobb County is served by District 3-1, the Cobb and Douglas health district. Cobb shares its health district with Douglas, so both counties are served by the same Babies Can’t Wait program.

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 Cobb County

Cobb sits west across the river from our office, and most of it is reachable without crossing the worst of the downtown connector.

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 Marietta

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.