House call doctor in Clifton, NJ

Primary care that comes to you in Clifton

Clifton is dense and diverse, with a lot of two-family homes and older residents living upstairs from family. We visit across Botany Village, Athenia, Richfield and Allwood.

Where Clifton goes for hospital care, and why that matters

St. Mary's General in Passaic and St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson serve most of Clifton, with some residents going to Mountainside in Montclair. All three are close by, and all three involve traffic and difficult parking. In a city this dense the barrier is rarely mileage, it is the twenty minutes circling for a space with someone frail in the passenger seat.

The homes we visit in Clifton

Botany Village, Athenia, Richfield and Allwood each have their own character, but the pattern of two-family homes and garden apartments runs through all of them, often with an older parent upstairs from an adult child. Multigenerational households are common, and so is a family member interpreting during appointments.

Life Primary Care is a house call practice based in East Hanover, and Clifton sits inside our regular Passaic 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 Clifton and nearby Passaic, Paterson, Nutley, Montclair and Little Falls.

People look for this under several names: a house call doctor in Clifton, 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 Clifton has just been discharged from St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson or Chilton Medical Center in Pequannock, 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 Clifton

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