You can live in that house and still not know.

The first 48 hours at home

This is the landing. Going home with something in you or on you. Hospitals may not allow some patients to leave without arranging home care. We take the first hours in the house. We also line up the agency that stays after — one we already know can do the work — so you are not signing whatever they hand you on the way out.

• The first 24 to 48 hours. You cannot compromise those hours. Survive them. We set the work so the agency that stays after can step in from where we left off.
• The first week decides which way this goes. A nurse can be warm, chatty, loved — every box checked, every med given, every order followed — and still be the shift the slide starts under. The damage shows up days later, and nobody connects it back. An experienced Bodyguard does not just watch the landing. We set it in order — then we hand the nurses who take the shifts after us what to hold, so the recovery holds when we are not in the room. We can cover up to two weeks. A rough handoff is where decline starts.
• The hire sent as “experienced.” We have walked into houses where a patient was just discharged and the person sent as experienced did not know what had to be in that house for you to survive the next morning. They did not know the machines — not how to run them, not when one was working and when it was not.
• You are already paying for those hours. A rotation charges by the hour — and sends whoever is available.
• The delivery is not the setup. The company that brings the machine will tell you it is fine. We have found some that were not. Different machines, different people, new models. The person you hired at home often cannot set it up, and cannot tell you it is wrong. One bad setup is all it takes.
• What is in that house — and what your Bodyguard does. New medicines. A wound. Oxygen. Breathing treatments. A drain. A urinary catheter. IV medications. IV fluids. A wound vac. Tube feeding. Tube medications. Ostomy. A humidifier. Suction. Trach (tube in the neck). A vent. A Bodyguard in the house. 4, 12, 24, or 48 hours. Check-ins if hands are already there and you only need eyes. that is not this product.
• Hands-on, not just eyes. In these hours your Bodyguard is the nurse — the feeds, the suction, the oxygen, the machines, the meds on schedule. You do not need a second nurse in the house unless you want to. When your own nurse is there, we watch and we document.
• The orders nobody reconciles. Every specialist writes for the piece they see — nobody holds the whole list. Orders written before the tube in the neck keep running after it. We do not change your doctor's orders — we make sure every one of them still deserves to run.

We make the machines work. We make the rest ready. Then the agency that stays after can continue — our pick, or one you choose yourself. Either way, the landing has to be orderly first. Tell us the hours. A Bodyguard comes to the house.

Request hours in the house

We always look at the person

Paperwork-only is a weak visit. The notes will say the care happened. The body is what tells you if it did. We use the care plan and the med list only as a check against what we see.

• The body: pain, skin, hydration, alertness, cleanliness, food — what a family member is not trained to catch early.
• The staff on duty: the nurse, the CNAs, the aide — are they doing the job, even while you are in the next room.
• The match: care plan and notes vs the person. We do not sell a folder review with nobody examined.
• The manner: how they speak to your person when our licensed Bodyguard is in the house.