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Coordinating Care at Home

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How Home Care Works

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.

Who is on the team?

Your role is to make sure the team understands your child’s needs and follows the care plan.

Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals

Home health agency

Insurance company

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Getting the Right Care and Support

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Work with the home health agency to make sure a nurse or aide is scheduled.

Ask your child’s doctor to write a referral for home nursing/health aide, therapy, specialists or special equipment.

Call your MCO to check coverage.

Other types of help you may qualify for

Tip: If you don’t know where to start, ask your child’s pediatrician, family facilitator, or a hospital social worker for help.

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Making a Shared Plan of Care

A shared plan of care is a simple guide that tells nurses and aides how to take care of your child.

What should be in your shared plan of care?

Medical needs

What keeps your child calm

Daily schedule

Emergency contacts

Doctors, nurses, and people to call if something goes wrong.

Favorite toys, songs, or routines.

Medicine names, allergies, and how to use special equipment.

When your child eats, takes medicine, sleeps, bathes, and does therapy.

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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 you or your family by having a home health aide help for a few hours.
• Special medical supplies like wheelchairs, oxygen, or feeding tubes.

Give the care plan to nurses and home health aides, and update it when things change.