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Complex conditions we care for at home in Georgia.

Georgia Medicaid approves GAPP on how much hands-on care a child needs each day, not on a diagnosis list. These are the needs we see most often, and what in-home nursing actually does for each one.

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TracheostomyA tracheostomy turns a parent into a full-time airway manager.

VentilatorVentilator-dependent children are the highest-acuity cases in the Georgia Pediatric Program, and the ones the program exists for.

Feeding tubePump alarms, night feeds, granulation tissue, and the day it pulls out entirely.

Cerebral palsyLifting, positioning, feeding, medications, therapy carryover, and the slow strain on a parent’s own body.

Spina bifidaCatheterization every few hours, a bowel program that cannot slip, a shunt to watch, and skin that has to be checked because your child may not feel the sore forming.

Seizure disordersRescue medication that has to be given correctly and fast, a log the neurologist can actually use, and nights where nobody in the house sleeps properly.

HydrocephalusHydrocephalus care is mostly watchfulness, punctuated by episodes that move fast.

Oxygen dependenceConcentrators, tanks, tubing, saturation limits and the judgement call about when a desaturation is a problem.

NICU graduatesA NICU discharge hands a family a monitor, a feeding plan, sometimes oxygen or a trach, and a car seat.

Traumatic brain injuryRecovery that comes in bursts and plateaus, seizure watch, tube feeds, and a family learning a new child.

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Where we staff these cases

We staff complex pediatric cases across metro Atlanta and out to Macon, Augusta, Columbus and Gainesville. Your county page has the local detail: which hospitals children come home from, which Babies Can’t Wait district you are in, and how we schedule around the drive.

HeartPath Home Care is an approved provider for the Georgia Pediatric Program. We are not a government agency, and this page is not medical advice. Georgia Medicaid decides who is approved, which services are authorized and how many hours.