Diabetes care at home in Union County

Managing diabetes without the trips to an office

We cover Union County from the Summit and Westfield area through Cranford and Scotch Plains down to Elizabeth and Linden.

A clinician comes to your home anywhere in Union County with a portable exam kit and your chart already open. Visits run 45 to 60 minutes, which is the time it takes to examine you properly, review every medication in the house and write a plan your family can follow. Whether you are looking for a house call doctor, a visiting physician or in-home medical care for a senior parent in Union County, this is that service.

What we manage

Blood sugar targets that fit the person rather than a textbook, oral medication and insulin adjustment, A1c and kidney function testing drawn at your table, blood pressure and cholesterol, and the annual checks that quietly prevent the worst outcomes: feet, eyes and urine protein.

For older adults we also ask a question that gets skipped: whether the target is now too tight. Aggressive control that causes hypoglycaemia and falls is worse than a slightly higher number.

What the home tells us

Expired insulin in a door shelf where it freezes. A meter with no strips because the last prescription lapsed. Test results written on a calendar nobody brings to appointments. Food that makes the prescribed plan impossible. These are the real reasons control slips, and none of them are visible from an office.

After a hospital stay in Union

If you have recently been discharged from Overlook Medical Center in Summit or Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, we can usually visit within two to three days to reconcile the discharge medication list against what is actually in the house. We are independent and not affiliated with any hospital system.

Towns we cover in Union County

Berkeley Heights, Clark, Cranford, Elizabeth, Fanwood, Garwood, Kenilworth, Linden, Mountainside, New Providence, Rahway, Roselle and every other town in the county.