Home Nursing Care in
Ragama.
Home nursing care in Ragama is most often arranged the week a stroke patient comes off the ward. BetterHands places qualified nurses across Ragama, Kandana, Welisara and Kadawatha — from LKR 9,000/day.
The small rules after a stroke are the ones that keep a patient out of hospital.
Why home nursing in Ragama begins on the ward.
Colombo North Teaching Hospital is in Ragama itself, with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Kelaniya beside it.
Local families therefore get good acute care quickly, which after a stroke is exactly what determines how much recovery is possible.
What they are less prepared for is the discharge. A patient goes home weak on one side, often with a feeding tube, and sometimes unable to swallow safely.
On the ward, all of that was managed by trained staff around the clock. At home in Kandana or Welisara, it becomes the family’s responsibility overnight.
However, almost none of the risk here is dramatic. It is a feed given lying flat, a shoulder left unsupported, a turn that did not happen.
Therefore the job is to move ward discipline into the house. The same schedule, the same positioning, the same watchfulness — carried out by somebody trained.
The first month at home
Four small failures that undo a good recovery.
Readmission from Ragama after a stroke is usually a chest infection or a pressure sore. Both begin with something ordinary that nobody was told mattered.
Fed lying flat
A feed given to a patient who is not sat up is the single most preventable cause of aspiration pneumonia. It takes thirty seconds to correct and nobody teaches it.
Turning that stops after a week
Two-hourly repositioning is exhausting and it is also the whole defence against a pressure sore. Enthusiasm fades long before the risk does.
Limbs left in the wrong position
A shoulder unsupported and a hand curled shut for weeks produce contractures. What began as weakness becomes a fixed deformity that no exercise reverses.
A chest infection called a cough
A slight temperature and a wet-sounding cough in a stroke patient are not minor. Treated on day one it is antibiotics; treated on day five it is a readmission.
What a nurse does in Ragama, to a schedule.
Stroke nursing at home is unspectacular and highly effective. It consists almost entirely of doing ordinary things at the right time and in the right position.
Feeds go in with the patient sat up. Limbs are supported. The skin is checked. Medication that cannot be crushed is not crushed.
Because the same nurse attends, a change in the chest, the swallow or the skin is picked up while it is still small enough to treat at home.
- Feeding through an existing tube, with position and rate checked every time
- Aspiration precautions enforced, including nothing by mouth until cleared
- Repositioning to a written schedule, with limbs supported correctly
- Skin and pressure areas inspected and any breakdown staged and dressed
- Prescribed medication given, including drugs that must not be crushed
- Chest, temperature and swallow changes reported to the treating team
Straight answers
Home nursing in Ragama, in brief.
What does home nursing care in Ragama cover after a stroke?
Feeding through an existing tube, aspiration precautions, repositioning on a schedule, skin and pressure-area protection, prescribed medication, and bladder or bowel management. All charted, so the follow-up clinic sees the whole month.
How much of this can a caregiver do instead?
A trained caregiver can turn, wash, dress and assist with movement, which is most of the hours. A nurse is needed for the tube, the drugs, the catheter and the judgement about whether a chest is getting worse.
How quickly can a nurse start in Ragama?
Usually within 24 to 48 hours, and we would rather start on discharge day. The free assessment covers the bed, the feeding plan, the drug chart and the bathroom. The written placement guarantee holds from the day your relative comes home.
What we provide
Clinical nursing for Ragama households.
Stroke recovery needs nursing and rehabilitation running together. Where only one of the two is arranged, the other becomes the thing that limits the outcome.
Clinical Nursing
Tube feeding, catheter care, suction and oxygen, with the boundaries stated. A stroke discharge usually arrives with two or three of these attached.
Clinical Nursing Services Sri LankaPhysiotherapy at Home
The recovery half of stroke care. Nursing keeps a patient safe; physiotherapy is what gets movement back, and the first months matter disproportionately.
Physiotherapy at Home Sri Lanka
Wound Care at Home
Pressure sores after a long ward stay are common and slow to heal. Staging, dressing and the surfaces that stop the next one forming.
Wound Care at Home Sri Lanka
Medication Management
Anticoagulants, blood pressure control and swallowing difficulties make this harder than it looks. Crushing the wrong tablet can be genuinely dangerous.
Medication Management Sri Lanka
Home Nursing Care
The service explained across the country — cost, structure and the conditions we accept. Best read during the ward stay, before anyone mentions discharge.
Home Nursing Care Sri Lanka
Our Nursing Service
Our service broken down by grade of staff. Worth reading before discharge, while the ward is still telling you what your relative will need.
Home Nursing Care ServiceWhere we serve
Nurses across Ragama, Kandana and Kadawatha.
Being minutes from Colombo North Teaching Hospital means follow-up is straightforward and a readmission, if it is needed, is quick. We place nurses who live within that radius.
How it works
From the ward to a house that is set up for it.
Discharge instructions come first
The feeding plan, the swallow status, the drug chart and any physiotherapy programme. The nurse works to those documents from the first visit onward.
The bed and the room are set up
Height, position, turning aids and where the feed is prepared. Doing this properly on day one prevents most of what goes wrong in month one.
Matched to a nurse used to stroke work
Positioning, feeding and skin care are learned skills, not instincts. You see the profile before anyone is introduced, and may decline without giving a reason.
A turning and feeding schedule on the wall
Written, timed and visible, so relatives, caregivers and nurses are all working to one plan rather than three different recollections.
Reviewed as recovery changes things
Stroke recovery moves. Cover that made sense in week one is usually wrong by week six, and we will say so rather than let it run on.
Family stories
What families tell us.
“BetterHands transformed my mother's quality of life. The caregivers are professional, compassionate, and treat her with so much dignity. Our whole family is relieved and grateful.”
Chamari W.
Colombo 07
“After my father's heart surgery at Lanka Hospitals, the nursing team from BetterHands provided exceptional post-operative care at home. They were thorough, kind, and always on time.”
Roshan & Dilini P.
Nugegoda
“My grandfather was very lonely after being discharged from hospital. His BetterHands companion has become a true friend — he is happier and more engaged than he's been in years.”
Priya N.
Kandy
FAQs
Home nursing care in Ragama — questions families ask.
A professional nurse is LKR 9,000 per day. Stroke recovery usually needs a nurse daily at first, then two or three days a week, with a trained caregiver at LKR 4,500 covering the turning and washing. One annual registration fee of LKR 20,000 applies. Kandana, Welisara and Kadawatha carry no travel supplement.
Yes, where a feeding tube is already in place and the plan is written. The nurse checks position before every feed, gives it at the prescribed rate, sits her up properly, and keeps her upright afterwards. Inserting a tube is hospital work.
It is food, fluid or saliva going into the lungs instead of the stomach. After a stroke the swallow is often unsafe, and aspiration pneumonia is the commonest reason a recovering patient goes back to hospital. Most of the prevention is positioning.
No. Swallow assessment is done by the hospital team, and until they clear her, nothing goes in by mouth except what they have specifically allowed. A nurse enforces that boundary, which is often the hardest part for a family to accept.
Not necessarily, and it is far easier to prevent than to reverse. Positioning, splinting where prescribed, and daily passive movement all help. This is where nursing and physiotherapy at home need to be pulling in the same direction.
Ragama town, Kandana, Welisara, Thewatta, Batuwatta, Mahabage, Kadawatha, Kiribathgoda, Dalugama, Hunupitiya, Eldeniya and Pahala Biyanwila. Colombo North Teaching Hospital sits in Ragama itself, which keeps follow-up journeys short.
Home nursing in nearby areas.
Is the tube the problem, or the twenty-four hours?
Feeding, drugs and skin are clinical work for a nurse. A patient who needs turning through the night needs continuous cover as well, which the 24-hour Ragama page sets out. After a stroke, most households need both at first.
Transparent pricing
Membership first, then simple daily rates.
One annual membership covers coordination, payroll, and unlimited caregiver replacements. After that you pay a flat daily rate for the level of care you need.
BetterHands Annual Membership
LKR 20,000
One-time annual registration fee
- Unlimited caregiver replacements at no additional cost if you are not satisfied
- Payroll management and caregiver administration
- Ongoing coordination and support from the BetterHands team
- Access to all services covered under the BetterHands membership
Step two — daily service rates
Duties below are what each role normally provides — your care plan is tailored during the free assessment.
Caregiver
Daily living support and companionship
LKR 4,500/day
Most families start here — a parent who is managing, but should not be alone all day.
- Friendly conversation and companionship
- Bathing and personal care assistance (if required)
- Medication reminders and general supervision
- Simple meals and refreshments
- Short walks and light activities (if appropriate)
- Day-to-day assistance and emotional support
Nursing Assistant
Personal care plus basic clinical support
LKR 6,000/day
Common where diabetes, blood pressure or early-stage dementia needs daily monitoring.
- Everything in the caregiver role
- Vital signs monitoring (BP, blood sugar, SpO₂)
- Medication reminders and administration support
- Basic wound and continence care
Professional Nurse
Complex medical and post-operative needs
LKR 9,000/day
Usually after a hospital discharge, a stroke, or where wounds and IV care are involved.
- Everything in the nursing assistant role
- PHSRC-registered clinical nursing
- Wound care, injections, and IV therapy
- Catheter, NG tube, and post-operative care
Daily rates are charged in addition to the one-time annual registration fee of LKR 20,000. The same daily rates apply to day care, night care and live-in support — no shift premiums, no travel supplements for any district. Hospital bystander cover is priced by shift length instead — see that service page for its packages. A free care assessment is provided before any commitment.
Arrange home nursing care
in Ragama.
Call us while the discharge is still being planned. We will match a qualified nurse within 72 hours and set the house up before your relative arrives home.
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