House call doctor in Montclair, NJ
Primary care at your kitchen table in Montclair. No clinic, no waiting room, no travel fee.
Primary care that comes to you in Montclair
Montclair's hills and its beautiful, stair-heavy older houses are hard on anyone with a mobility problem. We visit throughout Montclair and Upper Montclair.
Where Montclair goes for hospital care, and why that matters
Mountainside Medical Center is in the township, with Saint Barnabas in Livingston and Clara Maass in Belleville also drawing patients from here. The complication in Montclair is not distance but topography and parking: the town rises steeply from east to west, the streets around Bloomfield Avenue and Church Street are congested, and parking near any medical office is competitive. None of that matters when the clinician comes to you.
The homes we visit in Montclair
Montclair's older houses are its glory and its problem. Tall Victorians and centre-hall colonials with steep staircases, sometimes three floors, often with the only full bathroom well above ground level. There are also apartment buildings and condominiums, particularly toward the south end, where residents frequently live alone.
Life Primary Care is a house call practice based in East Hanover, and Montclair 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 Montclair and nearby Glen Ridge, Verona, Bloomfield, Upper Montclair and Cedar Grove.
People look for this under several names: a house call doctor in Montclair, 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 Montclair 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 Montclair
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 Montclair. Call 973-607-4911 and we will check your specific plan before anything is scheduled.
House calls in Montclair: common questions
The hill on our street is steep. Is that an issue?
Not for us, and it is often the reason people call. A hill that a clinician drives up once is a hill you would otherwise have to walk down and back up on the way to an appointment. We visit throughout Montclair and Upper Montclair.
Do you visit apartment buildings with a lift?
Yes. Tell our coordinator the buzzer or intercom details when you book and we will make a note of them so the visit is not held up at the door.
Do you make house calls in Montclair?
Yes. Montclair 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 Montclair?
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 Montclair?
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 Montclair?
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 Montclair
Call and speak with a real person. We will confirm your insurance, find a time and come to you.
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