Penn Home Infusion Therapy

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Penn Home Infusion Therapy's home care and home infusion nurses are specially trained and certified to administer all infusion therapies in the home. By providing therapy in the home, our teams allow patients to continue their care in the comfort and convenience of their own homes, providing patients with more flexibility and independence in their daily routines. Penn Home Infusion Therapy partners with Penn Medicine Home Health Princeton Health to provide infusion therapy to patients in the Princeton region. 

 

Home Infusion Therapy

Our nurses are all able to maintain PICC (Peripherally Inserted Center Catheter) lines and to work with central venous access devices. Our pharmacists and pharmacy staff maintain vital communications with a patient's physicians, ensuring timely, precise care. Infusion therapy available through Penn Medicine at Home includes:

  • IV antibiotics
  • Biologics
  • Chemotherapy
  • Nutrition
  • Hemophilic Therapies (Factor)
  • Immune Globulin
  • Milrinone
  • Steroids
  • Supportive Therapies
    • Anti-emetics
    • Colony Stimulating Factor
    • Hydration (IVF)
    • Pain Management (PCA)

 

Penn Home Infusion Therapy offers comprehensive, wrap around care, managing all aspects of a patient’s infusion therapy in the home. This includes:

 

  • Best-Practice, disease specific care teams that allow for expertise across oncology, nutrition, infectious disease, cardiology, and pain management
  • Customized patient care plans developed by a multidisciplinary team that includes nurses and infusion pharmacists
  • Collaboration with Penn Medicine at Home’s comprehensive programs to meet individualized patient needs
  • Easy-to-read visual training aides that are therapy specific for patients and their families
  • Nurses and managers available 24 hours a day / 7 days a week
  • Consistently strong patient, family, and care team satisfaction

 

For more information, please call 1.609.497.4900.