Home Healthcare

St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children is the largest provider of long-term home healthcare for children in New York State. In the more than 20 years since the home healthcare program was pioneered, St. Mary’s has served over 10,000 children and has demonstrated the ability to provide multidisciplinary services to the most clinically complex child.

Our skilled professionals promote a family-centered philosophy of care complete with bilingual support. We work with both the family and the physician to develop and implement a customized care plan that will optimize the effectiveness of every treatment and intervention to achieve the desired clinical outcomes.

Programs and Services We Offer

		Skilled nursing visits			Respite care
		Physical, occupational, speech, and language therapies			Medical supplies, equipment, and transportation arrangements
		Social work services			Pastoral care
		Nutritional counseling			Palliative care
		Home health aide, personal care aide, and homemaker services			Bereavement services
		Case management services			24-hour availability for emergencies
		Private duty nursing			Home and hospital evaluations

Depending on the child’s acuity, family support, home environment, and payor source, the following home healthcare options are available:

LOMBARDI PROGRAM
Long-Term Home Healthcare Program
This program is unique in its wide array of services and intensive case management for children with a variety of chronic, complex medical problems who require home healthcare services over an extended period of time.  

Additional programs include:
• AIDS Home Care Program
• AIDS/HIV Mental Health Program
– Available for HIV-positive patients and their families, funded by Title I of the Ryan White C.A.R.E. Act
• Vehicular Access to Neighborhoods (VAN) Program
– Multidisciplinary teams provide care to children and families residing in difficult to serve areas

ST. MARY’S METROPOLITAN HOME CARE FOR KIDS
Certified Home Health Agency
St. Mary’s has partnered with the Metropolitan Jewish Healthcare System to provide maternal child health and pediatric home healthcare services to children and families who require short-term home healthcare.

ST. MARY’S COMMUNITY CARE PROFESSIONALS
Licensed Home Care Service Agency
St. Mary’s licensed agency is designed to provide specialty pediatric rehabilitation and nursing services to children, families, and other home care agencies and institutions.

 CARE AT HOME PROGRAM
St. Mary’s pediatric nurses and professional staff provide comprehensive case management for the delivery of multidisciplinary services to children and families.

 Service Areas: Depending on the program selected, services are available in the five boroughs of New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and Rockland counties. St. Mary’s Community Care Professionals also serve Orange, Duchess, Putnam, Sullivan, and Ulster counties.