Home Healthcare Route Planner
Order patient visits for nurses and caregivers — realistic ETAs with visit durations, privacy-first (no upload), printable day plan.
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Paste CSV (name, latitude, longitude — one per line)
Field guide: Home Healthcare Route Planner
Home health runs on a brutal equation: visits are reimbursed, windshield time isn't, and clinicians burn out on exactly the gap between the two. A nurse doing six 50-minute visits with 2.5 hours of driving serves the same patients as one driving 1.5 hours — but ends the day with charting time instead of overtime. This planner orders the day's visits by geography while you keep clinical sequencing authority: anchor the time-critical visit first, optimize the rest.
Privacy is structural here, not a policy: patient addresses are PHI, and this tool never transmits them — stops live in your browser's storage and exports are local files. That's a real difference from cloud route apps, where uploading a patient list creates a business-associate problem nobody signed. Set visit durations per care type (medication 25 min, wound care 45, SOC/OASIS 90+) so ETAs respect the care, not just the map.
Field tips
- Anchor clinically-timed visits (insulin windows, wound-care schedules) as the fixed first stop; optimize flexibility around them.
- Use honest visit durations by discipline — an underestimated OASIS assessment wrecks every ETA after lunch.
- Cluster patients into caregiver day-zones weekly, then order each day here; continuity AND geography both win.
Records are stored only in this browser (localStorage) — export regularly. This tool aids field documentation; it does not replace your agency's official inspection procedures or engineering judgment.
Home Healthcare Route Planner — Order patient visits for nurses and caregivers — realistic ETAs with visit durations, privacy-first (no upload), printable day plan. Free, offline-first and GPS-aware: open it on any phone, log in seconds, and hand your GIS team clean GeoJSON.
About Home Healthcare Route Planner
Home health runs on a brutal equation: visits are reimbursed, windshield time isn't, and clinicians burn out on exactly the gap between the two. A nurse doing six 50-minute visits with 2.5 hours of driving serves the same patients as one driving 1.5 hours — but ends the day with charting time instead of overtime. This planner orders the day's visits by geography while you keep clinical sequencing authority: anchor the time-critical visit first, optimize the rest.
How to use Home Healthcare Route Planner
- 1Add your stops — type addresses/names with coordinates, capture GPS on site, or paste a CSV.
- 2Set your average speed and per-stop service time so ETAs are realistic.
- 3Click Optimize — a nearest-neighbour + 2-opt pass reorders stops to cut total distance.
- 4Review the ordered run sheet with leg distances and ETAs.
- 5Export the optimized route as CSV or GeoJSON for navigation and records.
Why use Home Healthcare Route Planner?
- ✓100% free, no sign-up — built for crews, not per-seat licences
- ✓Offline-first: records save to your device instantly and survive dead zones
- ✓One-tap GPS tagging with accuracy capture on every record
- ✓Exports CSV for asset systems, GeoJSON for GIS, and print-ready reports
- ✓Checklist and guidance aligned with Home health operations benchmarks (visit/drive-time share)
Frequently asked questions
Is this HIPAA-safe to use with patient addresses?+
The architecture is the answer: nothing is uploaded — addresses you enter stay in this browser's local storage and never touch a server, so there's no third party handling PHI and nothing to sign. Standard device hygiene still applies (agency device, lock screen, clear data when rotating equipment).
How do visit time windows work in home health routing?+
Most visits are 'sometime today' with a handful of clinical anchors — med administration windows, post-op checks. The pattern: fix the anchor as the first stop (the solver preserves it), optimize the flexible visits, and read the ETA column to confirm later anchors still land. Multiple rigid anchors split the day into optimizable segments between them.
How much drive time is normal in home care?+
Industry surveys put it at 18–25% of the workday in metro agencies and 35%+ rural — 90 minutes to 3 hours daily. Geographic clustering plus visit ordering typically recovers 30–60 minutes; agencies measuring visits-per-clinician-day see it directly in the only metric that funds payroll.
Can scheduling continuity and routing coexist?+
Yes — continuity decides WHO (the same caregiver pairings patients rely on), routing decides ORDER. The practical structure: caregiver-patient assignments first, day zones second, this tool's ordering third. Agencies that route without continuity churn patients; continuity without routing churns staff.
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