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Pediatric private duty nursing in Rockdale County

In-home skilled nursing (often called private duty nursing) and personal care for medically fragile children across Rockdale County, through Georgia’s Pediatric Program. For families who qualify, Georgia Medicaid covers it in full.

Check eligibility Call 678-459-2590

Conyersand the unincorporated communities around it

Who we serve in Rockdale 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.

Rockdale is compact, which makes scheduling easier than in the sprawling counties. If we have a nurse in Conyers, we can usually cover Conyers properly.

Where children come home from in Rockdale County

Rockdale is small enough that families here are often surprised by how much is handled in Conyers and how much is not. If your child is still admitted anywhere, call before discharge.

Piedmont Rockdale in Conyers is a 161-bed community hospital with a Level III NICU, and it is the closest delivering hospital for most of the county.

Children who need pediatric subspecialty or surgical care head west into Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. That drive is the reason a lot of Rockdale families want nursing in place at home before discharge rather than after: the follow-up appointments do not get closer.

Babies Can’t Wait in Rockdale County

Rockdale County is served by District 3-4, which covers Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale. This one catches Rockdale families out. The district’s Babies Can’t Wait program is administered through Lawrenceville in Gwinnett, not from Conyers, so the office you are referred to is a drive north.

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 Rockdale County

Rockdale is east on I-20, about the same run as Douglas in the other direction.

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 Conyers

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.

Questions from families in Rockdale County

Why is our Babies Can’t Wait office in Lawrenceville?

Because Rockdale sits in health district 3-4 with Gwinnett and Newton, and the district runs its Babies Can’t Wait program out of Lawrenceville. It is a normal source of confusion for Rockdale families. It has no bearing on GAPP, which is a separate Medicaid program and is handled through us and your child’s physician.

Is a smaller county easier to schedule?

Usually yes. Rockdale is compact, so if we have a nurse in Conyers we can generally cover Conyers properly rather than stretching someone across a forty-minute county.

What if our child needs more hours later?

Hours come from the plan of treatment your child physician signs, and Georgia Medicaid authorizes against that. If your child condition changes, tell us and tell the doctor, and we help get updated documentation submitted. Be careful with any agency that promises more hours quickly, because nobody but Medicaid decides that.

Conditions we care for in Rockdale County

HeartPath nurses care for children in Rockdale County with a tracheostomy or a ventilator, a feeding tube, oxygen, seizure disorders, cerebral palsy, spina bifida and hydrocephalus, and NICU graduates coming home for the first time. There is no fixed list of qualifying diagnoses, so if your child is not described here, call and ask.