House call doctor in Madison, NJ

Primary care that comes to you in Madison

Madison has a large population of older adults ageing in place in the borough's older homes, often with stairs that were fine at sixty and are a daily calculation at eighty.

Where Madison goes for hospital care, and why that matters

Madison residents usually travel to Morristown Medical Center or to Overlook in Summit, depending on the specialist. Both are short drives that become long errands once parking, waiting and the walk from the car park are added in. The borough itself is walkable, which is a genuine pleasure until a hip or a chest complaint makes the walk to the station or the surgery the limiting factor in someone's week.

The homes we visit in Madison

Older borough homes on close-set streets, many of them handsome and almost all of them with the bedrooms and the only full bathroom on the first floor. There is a substantial community of residents ageing in place here, often in houses they bought when the children were small.

Life Primary Care is a house call practice based in East Hanover, and Madison sits inside our regular Morris 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 Madison and nearby Chatham, Florham Park, Convent Station and Morristown.

People look for this under several names: a house call doctor in Madison, 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 Madison has just been discharged from Morristown Medical Center or Saint Clare's Denville, 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 Madison

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