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Coordinating care at home
Insurance company
Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals
Home health agency
Who is on the team?
Your role is to make sure the team understands your child’s needs and is guided by the care plan.
Home care is a team effort! You, your family, nurses, home health aides, your child‘s doctors, and insurance companies all work together to take care of your child.
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Tip
How home care works
Other types of help you may qualify for
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Tip: If you don’t know where to start, ask your child’s pediatrician, family facilitator, or a hospital social worker for help.
- Work with the home health agency to make sure a nurse or aide is scheduled.
- Call your insurance company to check what they will pay for.
- Ask your child’s doctor to write a referral for home nursing/health aide, therapy, specialists or special equipment.
Getting the right care and support
What should be in your shared plan of care?
- Medicine names, allergies, and how to use special equipment.
What keeps your child calm
Medical needs
Emergency contacts
Daily schedule
- Favorite toys, songs, or routines.
- Doctors, nurses, and people to call if something goes wrong.
- When your child eats, takes medicine, sleeps, bathes, and does therapy.
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A shared plan of care is a simple guide that tells nurses and aides how to take care of your child.
Making a shared plan of care
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Other types of help you may qualify for:
- Extra care hours for nursing or therapy at home.
- A short break for providers by having a home health aide help for a few hours.
- Special medical supplies like wheelchairs, oxygen, or feeding tubes.