Pediatric Home Service

The company delivers three integrated pediatric home care services: home respiratory therapy (ventilators, tracheostomy support, airway clearance), home infusion pharmacy (TPN, IV antibiotics, enzyme replacement therapies, and other compounded sterile preparations), and durable medical equipment (wheelchairs, feeding pumps, oxygen concentrators, and customized orthotics). This combined model allows a single provider to manage overlapping clinical needs for medically complex children, reducing the coordination burden on families and discharging hospitals.

The firm serves children with long-term, technology-dependent conditions including cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy, cerebral palsy, congenital heart disease, metabolic disorders, and complications of extreme prematurity. Patients are typically referred at hospital discharge when they require ongoing nursing, ventilator weaning, parenteral nutrition, or regular IV infusions at home. The company does not serve the geriatric home health market, remaining exclusively focused on pediatric patients from birth through young adulthood.

Pediatric Home Service was founded in 1990 by Susan Wingert, a registered nurse who remains the owner and operational leader of the company. No private equity investment, acquisition, or outside equity raise has been publicly reported, consistent with an owner-operated, closely-held structure. This distinguishes the firm from an increasingly consolidated home health industry where single-focus pediatric providers are often rolled up into larger adult-focused platforms.

Standard home health agencies are organized around episodic skilled nursing visits for adults, typically post-surgery or for chronic disease management. Pediatric Home Service is structured as a pediatric-specific provider that houses nursing, pharmacy, respiratory therapy, and durable medical equipment under one roof. The clinical protocols for children — weight-based dosing, pediatric-specific equipment sizing, caregiver training for parents — differ materially from geriatric home care, and the reimbursement pathways are distinct, often relying on state Medicaid programs and pediatric-specific waivers.

The company is headquartered in Roseville, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. Its service area covers Minnesota and neighboring regions in the upper Midwest, including parts of Wisconsin and the Dakotas. Minnesota's historically permissive regulatory and reimbursement environment for pediatric home care has allowed the firm to build deep referral relationships with the state's major pediatric hospitals, including Children's Minnesota and Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare.