House call doctor in Ridgewood, NJ

Primary care that comes to you in Ridgewood

Ridgewood's older village homes have narrow staircases and small bathrooms, and a fall assessment done in that actual hallway is worth far more than one done in an exam room.

Where Ridgewood goes for hospital care, and why that matters

The Valley Hospital serves Ridgewood, with Hackensack University Medical Center nearby for more specialist work. The village centre is walkable and parking near it is competitive, and the roads out to the hospitals are busy at predictable times. For someone recovering from an illness, the trip is usually more tiring than the appointment.

The homes we visit in Ridgewood

Older village homes with narrow, turning staircases and small bathrooms, on quiet streets. It is a town people stay in, so the housing stock now shelters a lot of residents in their eighties in houses designed for young families, which is a mismatch that shows up first in the bathroom and on the stairs.

Life Primary Care is a house call practice based in East Hanover, and Ridgewood 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 Ridgewood and nearby Glen Rock, Ho-Ho-Kus, Midland Park, Paramus and Wyckoff.

People look for this under several names: a house call doctor in Ridgewood, 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 Ridgewood 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 Ridgewood

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 Ridgewood. Call 973-607-4911 and we will check your specific plan before anything is scheduled.