House call doctor in Maplewood, NJ

Primary care that comes to you in Maplewood

Maplewood rises steadily toward the ridge, and the handsome older houses that make it desirable come with tall staircases and bedrooms on the second and third floors. The Midtown Direct train is no use to a resident who cannot walk the ten minutes to the station.

Life Primary Care is a house call practice based in East Hanover, and Maplewood 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 Maplewood and nearby South Orange, Millburn, Irvington, Union and West Orange.

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

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