House call doctor in Livingston, NJ
Primary care at your kitchen table in Livingston. No clinic, no waiting room, no travel fee.
Primary care that comes to you in Livingston
Livingston is minutes from our East Hanover base and has a large community of older residents who have been in the same house for decades and intend to stay there. That is precisely who home based primary care is built for.
Where Livingston goes for hospital care, and why that matters
Livingston has Saint Barnabas Medical Center within the township, which is where a great many residents are treated and discharged. That proximity is useful and also slightly misleading: the hospital is easy to reach by car and hard to reach without one, and the car parks are large but a long way from the entrances. After a discharge from Saint Barnabas we can usually visit within two or three days, which is the window when medication mix-ups and readmissions actually happen.
The homes we visit in Livingston
Large post-war and later homes on generous lots, occupied in many cases by the second or third generation of the same family, or by the original owners now in their eighties. Bedrooms upstairs is close to universal. There is also a meaningful population of older residents living with adult children, which shapes how care gets arranged here.
Life Primary Care is a house call practice based in East Hanover, and Livingston sits inside our regular Essex 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 Livingston and nearby East Hanover, Roseland, West Orange, Millburn and Short Hills.
People look for this under several names: a house call doctor in Livingston, 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 Livingston has just been discharged from Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston or Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair, 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 Livingston
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 Livingston. Call 973-607-4911 and we will check your specific plan before anything is scheduled.
House calls in Livingston: common questions
My mother was just discharged from Saint Barnabas. Can you see her at home?
Yes, and the sooner the better. We aim to visit within two to three days of a discharge, reconcile the discharge medication list against what is actually in the house, and confirm the home health agency has turned up. We are independent, so we work with the hospital rather than for it.
Do you cover the whole township, including the roads off South Orange Avenue?
Yes, all of Livingston. It is a short drive from our East Hanover base, which usually makes appointments here easy to schedule.
Do you make house calls in Livingston?
Yes. Livingston is inside our regular Essex County route and we visit homes, apartments and assisted living residences there. Call 973-607-4911 to book.
Do I have to be homebound to be seen at home in Livingston?
No. You do not need to be homebound for a primary care house call. Many patients simply prefer care that does not cost them half a day.
Do you charge extra to drive to Livingston?
No. There is no travel fee, concierge fee or membership charge. We bill your insurance for the visit exactly as an office would.
Can you draw blood at my home in Livingston?
Yes. We bring phlebotomy, EKG, urine testing and rapid testing with us, and we arrange mobile X-ray and ultrasound when they are needed.
Book a house call in Livingston
Call and speak with a real person. We will confirm your insurance, find a time and come to you.
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