Programs & Services

Princeton HomeCare Services offers comprehensive services through a series of programs designed to provide even more specialized care and support:

Hospice Program

Providing four levels of care including inpatient hospice services for patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families.

Princeton Caregivers

Princeton Caregivers provides extended care, private duty services, including in-home care, in-hospital care and live-in care. Extended care is any care provided for a minimum of two hours or more per day. It is designed to compliment traditional home care and skilled nursing by a registered or licensed practical nurse; hourly home health aide service; hourly homemaker service and live-in service by a home health aide/companion. All of the home health aides are state certified by the New Jersey Board of Nursing. Princeton Caregivers is always there for its clients, with 24-hour on-call availability 365 days each year.

Lifeline

An affordable personal emergency response system that calls for help when seniors or disabled individuals cannot. Lifeline is a push-button emergency response system that helps people of all ages obtain help in emergency situations such as a fall, fire, break-in or medical problem. This telecommunications unit can be leased monthly through Princeton HomeCare Services.

Home Care Planner

A home care Planner can arrange services while a patient is still in the hospital. All home care services can be arranged prior to discharge. At home, an evaluation will be made and a plan of care will be established under the direction of a physician.

Home Infusion Therapy

Princeton HealthCare System's home care and home infusion nurses are specially trained and certified to administer all infusion therapies in the home. They are also certified to insert PICC (Peripherally Inserted Center Catheter) lines and to work with central venous access devices. The pharmacists and pharmacy staff maintain vital communications with a patient's physicians, ensuring timely, precise care. Infusion therapy available through Princeton HomeCare Services includes:

Intravenous (IV) antibiotics
Total parenteral and enteral nutrition
Chemotherapy
Pain management
IV hydration
Biological therapy
Aerosolized pentamidine therapy