Home visit routes for nurses, therapists and caregivers.
A day of home visits is a handful of long stops, a few fixed times and a lot of driving between towns. Plan the order, check that the day fits, and keep patient details to a minimum.
- Free for up to 50 addresses
- No credit card
- No app to install
The short answer
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Lite Route Planner plans routes for home health clinicians and caregivers: add the day's visit addresses, set how long each visit takes, start from the clinician's home and optimize the order in one click. The day's total shows drive time, time at visits and miles. It's free for up to 50 addresses, and Business includes unlimited clinicians with no per-user fees. It's a route planner, not a medical record or a visit verification system.
What a home visit route needs
Home visits aren't deliveries. A nurse might see five or six patients in a day: a long admission visit, a few routine visits and a wound check that has to happen at a set time. A therapist might see seven. Caregivers often have fewer, longer visits. The order matters, but so does whether the day fits.
Set a default visit length, then change it on the long ones. After you optimize and save, Lite shows the drive time between visits, a day's total with time at visits included, and the miles, which helps when you fill in a mileage log.
Clinicians usually start from home, not an office. Save each person's home as a base and start their route there, or end it there. See how a round trip route works.
Keep patient data to a minimum
A route planner only needs an address to do its job. Everything else is optional, so leave out what you can.
Use a code, not a name
Label stops with a patient code or initials your team understands. The route works the same.
Logistics only in notes
Stop notes are for parking, entry and pets. Clinical details belong in your agency's own records.
Share links show notes
Anyone with a route's share link sees its stops and notes. Use driver logins for staff, and turn a link off when you're done with it.
Remove discharged patients
Delete a patient's stop at discharge so the map shows only your active caseload.
Ask before you store
Check your agency's policy on outside tools before putting any patient information in one, including this one.
A visit list with only what routing needs
No names, diagnoses or insurance numbers. A code, an address and a few logistics are enough to plan a route.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | |
| 1 | Code | Address | City | Discipline | Visit | Minutes | Frequency | Clinician | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | P-1042 | 1405 Garden Ln | Kettering, OH | RN | Admission | 105 | New | J. Moore | Ring twice |
| 3 | P-0987 | 220 Wren Cir | Centerville, OH | RN | Routine | 45 | 2w4 | J. Moore | Side door |
| 4 | P-1011 | 3318 Shroyer Rd | Kettering, OH | PT | Routine | 55 | 3w3 | A. Diaz | Elevator, 4th floor |
| 5 | P-0954 | 77 Linden Ave | Oakwood, OH | Aide | Bath visit | 60 | 3w8 | T. Nguyen | Key in lockbox |
| 6 | P-1020 | 5160 Bigger Rd | Kettering, OH | OT | Evaluation | 75 | New | A. Diaz | Small dog |
Frequency uses the home health shorthand: 2w4 means two visits a week for four weeks. It comes in as text you can filter by. Charts, medications and clinical notes belong in your agency's own system, not in a route planner.
Plan a clinician's day
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Set your usual visit length
Set a default service time, like 45 minutes, and change it on admissions and evaluations.
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Filter to one clinician
Color the map by your Clinician column and filter to the person you're planning for.
- 3
Lasso the day's visits
Draw a loop around the patients they'll see today and save it as a route that starts at their home.
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Optimize, then place the fixed times
One click orders visits for the shortest drive. If a visit has to be first, drag it to the top. Lite doesn't schedule around time windows.
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Send it to their phone
The clinician opens each address in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze and marks it Visited when they leave. Nothing to install: see the route planner app.
What this is, and what it isn't
Choose Lite if
- You need to plan the order of visits and see whether the day fits.
- Your clinicians want directions on their phone with nothing to install.
- You want one flat price with unlimited clinicians.
- You keep patient records in your own system.
Choose home care agency software if
- You need electronic visit verification (EVV) for billing.
- You need scheduling, caregiver matching or clinical documentation.
- You need routes planned around appointment times or live traffic.