Pediatric private duty nursing in Fulton County

Who we serve in Fulton 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.

Fulton is the county we serve most, and it holds both the largest children’s hospital campuses in Georgia and some of the longest commutes. When we match a nurse we look at your ZIP before anything else, because a nurse who lives twenty minutes away shows up in bad weather and a nurse who lives ninety minutes away eventually does not.

Where children come home from in Fulton County

Fulton holds more of the metro’s pediatric capacity inside its own borders than any other county we serve, so most families here are discharged without ever leaving the county. If your child is still admitted, call before discharge rather than after.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta runs two campuses in Fulton: Scottish Rite in Sandy Springs and Hughes Spalding downtown. Northside Hospital Atlanta runs a Level III NICU alongside one of the busiest delivery services in the country, and Wellstar North Fulton in Roswell covers the north end of the county.

That density is the reason Fulton discharges tend to move quickly. It also means the case manager handling your child may be coordinating with several systems at once, and a referral that starts while your child is still inpatient is far easier for them to route than one that arrives a week after you are home.

Babies Can’t Wait in Fulton County

Fulton County is served by District 3-2, the Fulton health district. Fulton is its own health district, so the Babies Can’t Wait program here is administered only for this county.

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 Fulton County

Our office is in Sandy Springs, inside Fulton County near the Roswell line, so most of the county is a short drive for a nurse starting a shift.

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 Atlanta

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.