Skilled Nursing Care at Home, Led by a Registered Nurse

Skilled nursing care at home is clinical care that requires a licensed nurse, such as wound care, medication management, IV antibiotic therapy and hydration support, and post-acute recovery monitoring. A caregiver helps with daily living: bathing, meals, companionship, mobility. They are different roles. A caregiver cannot assess a wound, reconcile your medications, or judge whether a change in your condition needs a same-day call to your doctor. At Prata Health, a registered nurse leads the clinical care, so you get a facility's level of skilled nursing in your own home.

More than many families expect. Our registered nurses provide comprehensive assessment and monitoring, wound and post-surgical incision care, medication management and reconciliation, IV antibiotic therapy and hydration support, post-acute recovery monitoring, and chronic condition oversight for conditions like heart failure, COPD, and diabetes. We are clear about our scope, and IV care is delivered as part of clinical treatment, not a standalone wellness drip. Your nurse determines the right level of care each day and adjusts as you recover.

Yes to wound care, and yes to IV antibiotic therapy. A nurse at home assesses the wound at every visit, manages dressings, surgical sites, and drains, watches for early signs of infection, and coordinates with your surgeon or physician. For infusions, we provide IV antibiotic therapy and hydration support. We are clear about our scope and will tell you plainly if a need falls outside it so you are never left guessing.

Traditional home health typically sends brief, task-based visits for a limited, insurance-driven period after a hospital stay, often with a different person each time. Prata Health gives you a dedicated registered nurse who leads your care, knows your full history, and stays the constant through your whole recovery. You have a direct line to your nurse, not a rotating roster and a call center. That continuity is what makes recovering at home safer than it sounds.

Cost depends on the level of care, the visit cadence, and how your needs change as you recover, so we provide pricing after a consultation rather than a single published rate. Skilled nursing at home is a private-pay service, which is exactly what allows the continuity and dedicated attention that benefit-limited home health cannot offer. We will give you a clear, honest picture of what your care would involve and what it would cost before any care begins.

We build the engagement around your recovery, not a fixed contract. Many clients need intensive skilled nursing through a surgery or a hospital discharge, then step the care down as they heal. Others need a nurse on their team for the long term. We will talk through the right structure during your consultation and scale the care up or down as your situation changes.