Pediatric private duty nursing in Gwinnett County

Who we serve in Gwinnett 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.

Gwinnett is the second largest county in Georgia and its size is the practical problem. A family in Buford and a family in Norcross are both “Gwinnett,” and they are forty minutes apart. Tell us your ZIP on the first call and we will be straight with you about which shifts we can cover well.

Where children come home from in Gwinnett County

Gwinnett has real NICU capacity of its own, so many families here are discharged without leaving the county. If your child is still admitted, call before discharge rather than after.

Northside Hospital Gwinnett in Lawrenceville runs a 28-bed Level III NICU, the largest of Northside’s suburban units. For a county this size that matters, because it means fewer families are sent into the city just to get a bed.

Children who need pediatric subspecialty or surgical care route into Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, most often Arthur M. Blank Hospital, which is a fairly direct run down 85 from most of the county.

Babies Can’t Wait in Gwinnett County

Gwinnett County is served by District 3-4, which covers Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale. The district’s Babies Can’t Wait program is run through Easter Seals North Georgia in Lawrenceville, so for Gwinnett families it is close to home.

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 Gwinnett County

Gwinnett runs a long way east and north, so we match nurses by ZIP rather than by county line.

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 Lawrenceville

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.