House call doctor in Scotch Plains, NJ

Primary care that comes to you in Scotch Plains

Scotch Plains and neighbouring Fanwood have quiet residential streets and very little public transport, so once driving stops, getting to a doctor becomes somebody else's day off.

Where Scotch Plains goes for hospital care, and why that matters

Overlook in Summit and the Robert Wood Johnson hospitals take most of the hospital work from Scotch Plains and neighbouring Fanwood. The township is quiet and residential with very little public transport, so the moment somebody stops driving, every appointment becomes a request to a relative or a neighbour. Families here usually call us after the third or fourth time that has happened in a month.

The homes we visit in Scotch Plains

Post-war homes and larger properties toward the Watchung end, on wide quiet streets. The layout that suits a family with children, with bedrooms upstairs and a garden to maintain, is the same layout that becomes unmanageable for one person in their eighties.

Life Primary Care is a house call practice based in East Hanover, and Scotch Plains sits inside our regular Union 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 Scotch Plains and nearby Westfield, Fanwood, Plainfield, Watchung and Berkeley Heights.

People look for this under several names: a house call doctor in Scotch Plains, 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 Scotch Plains has just been discharged from Overlook Medical Center in Summit or Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, 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 Scotch Plains

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