Abstract: A system and method (10) are disclosed for providing home health care to a plurality of home health care patients (12) by utilizing the services of field nurses (14). The system (10) includes at least one centralized programmable processor (16) configured to respond to a field alert request (18) associated with one of the patients (12) by accessing an electronic database (20) for a patient dataset (22) specific to the patient (12) and automatically initiating a field alert in the form of a wireless communications signal (24) transmitting a portion or all of the patient dataset (22) to a wireless communications device 26 assigned to a field nurse (14).