ICAH Melbourne Networking Event (August 2024)

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INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME Melbourne Networking Event (August 2024)

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Patrik: First off, I also want to thank the people that are not here today, because we have our nurses on the road doing a lot of the hard work. We have our admin team working remotely, keeping everything going, because without them, we wouldn’t be here today. And without them, we couldn’t be serving our clients in the community.

Thanks to everyone coming here today. So, I started this journey with Intensive Care at Home way back when. Some of you might know I am a critical care nurse by background. I was doing my nurse training in Germany way back when, and I started working in ICU immediately after my nurse training, really enjoyed it in there. Then, I heard about this start-up company in the early 2000s in Germany that was similar to Intensive Care at Home in Munich, and I thought, “Well, that sounds exciting. That is something that I’m very interested in.”

I joined them as an employee at the time, and we were the first ones in Germany launching Intensive Care at Home. We were actively recruiting patients from ICU going home predominantly with ventilation and tracheostomy. I did that for a couple of years, was one of my best experiences that I had in terms of my nursing career.

Then, I went overseas. I worked in the U.K. in ICU, and then I came to Australia in 2005, went back into ICU, worked in Sydney, worked in Perth, worked in Melbourne. All I could see in ICU in Australia was patients that we would’ve looked after at home in Germany. That’s all I was seeing. I said to doctors, I said to nurses, “Well, this patient would be at home in Germany,” and people say, “Oh, that wouldn’t be possible.” I said, “Well, we’ve done it. It’s happening in Europe already.”

So, that was for me. Then, I had a look around in Australia, is anything happening here that is of a similar nature? I couldn’t find it. Which then eventually led me to the path, “Okay, well let’s fill this niche. Let’s fill this need for Intensive Care at Home.”

Now, I had no idea in the early days who would fund it, no idea where the money was coming from, but I knew there was a need. I knew someone would be paying for this. That was in 2011, 2012 when I started the business. I had no idea that the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) would be a thing one day. I had no idea where the money would be coming from, but lo and behold, I was knocking at doors. I got the service accredited, starting to knock at doors, and I found many closed doors in the beginning. People were saying, “Oh, you can’t do Intensive Care at Home.” I said, “Oh, we’ve been doing it in Europe for the last 5 years. There’s no reason why it couldn’t happen here.”

So eventually, some people within the industry were warming up to the idea. It looks like after a couple of years of knocking on doors, some doors were opening, mainly with the TAC (Transport Accident Commission) at the time. There were some clients that the TAC identified could benefit from our service. We got in front of the first TAC client in probably 2013, 2014, who was a C1 spinal injury client, ventilated, tracheostomy. He got back to ICU almost weekly. He had a team of support workers and general registered nurses, but they couldn’t keep him home predictably. So, the TAC was funding our service in the early days, and we put a stop to that immediately.

When we worked with the client, he never went back to ICU ever. We proved our model pretty quickly within a few months really. It wasn’t without challenges in the beginning, as you can imagine.

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