House call doctor in Fort Lee, NJ

Primary care that comes to you in Fort Lee

Fort Lee is dense with high-rise apartments where many residents live alone. Getting downstairs, into a car and across town is often the single hardest part of their week.

Where Fort Lee goes for hospital care, and why that matters

Englewood Health and Hackensack University Medical Center take most hospital work from Fort Lee, and both mean a drive through some of the busiest roads in the county. For a resident in a high-rise who no longer drives, the journey involves a lift, a lobby, a taxi, a car park and a walk, before anyone has taken a blood pressure. It is a lot of the day for a routine review.

The homes we visit in Fort Lee

Dominated by high-rise apartment buildings along the Palisades, with a large number of residents living alone, many of them older and some without family nearby. Getting downstairs and out is frequently harder than anything happening medically.

Life Primary Care is a house call practice based in East Hanover, and Fort Lee sits inside our regular Bergen County route. A clinician comes to your home with a portable exam kit and your chart already open. A first visit runs 45 to 60 minutes, which is time enough to examine you properly, go through every medication in the house and write a plan your family can actually follow.

We visit private homes, apartments, condominiums, family members' houses, independent living and assisted living residences in Fort Lee and nearby Edgewater, Cliffside Park, Leonia, Englewood Cliffs and Palisades Park.

People look for this under several names: a house call doctor in Fort Lee, a visiting physician, a mobile doctor, in-home medical care, or simply a doctor who comes to your house. They all describe what we do. Homebound seniors are a large part of the practice, though you do not need to be homebound to be seen.

What we handle at home

Routine primary care and annual physicals, chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart failure and COPD, Medicare Annual Wellness Visits, care in the days after a hospital discharge, dementia and geriatric care, and same-day urgent problems for established patients. We draw blood, run EKGs and arrange mobile imaging without you leaving the house.

After a hospital stay

If you or a relative in Fort Lee has just been discharged from Hackensack University Medical Center or Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, the first two weeks are the risky part. We can usually visit within two to three days to reconcile the discharge medication list against what is really in the cabinet and confirm that home health has arrived. We are independent and not affiliated with any hospital system.

Insurance in Fort Lee

We accept Original Medicare, most Medicare Advantage plans and major commercial insurers, and we bill exactly as a clinic would. There is no charge for coming to Fort Lee. Call 973-607-4911 and we will check your specific plan before anything is scheduled.