Arranging care for mom or dad
You noticed something was different. Now you are trying to get a doctor involved without turning it into a production.
It usually starts small. A prescription that ran out and nobody refilled. A fall that got mentioned a week later, casually. A phone call where the answers did not quite line up. None of it is an emergency, and all of it means somebody needs to lay eyes on them.
The obstacle is rarely the appointment itself. It is the two hours before it and the two hours after: getting him dressed and into the car, the parking, the wait, the walk back, and the fact that you are the one taking the morning off to do it. Do that three times a year and it is manageable. Do it monthly and something gives.
We come to the house instead. The visit happens where they live, and it does not have to be arranged around anyone's work schedule.
What you can hand over
Regular eyes on them
Ongoing primary care in the home: the chronic conditions managed, not just the crisis of the week.
The pill bottles, reviewed
We go through what they are actually taking, with the bottles on the table, not what a list from three doctors says.
Labs and imaging at home
We order mobile diagnostics to the house, including labs, x-ray, ultrasound and EKG, and review the results ourselves.
Electronic visits by video
For questions that do not need hands, a video call settles it without another trip.
If you do not live nearby
Plenty of the people who call us are two states away. You can arrange the visit, and you do not have to be in the room for it to happen. Ask us to call you afterwards and we will tell you what we found and what we changed.
You also do not have to be their legal decision maker to ask questions and get things started. Call, describe what has been going on, and we will tell you whether this is something we can help with.
When the answer is "she says she's fine"
Being seen at home is often an easier thing to agree to than another appointment. There is no trip, no waiting room, and no morning given up to it. For a parent who has been putting off a doctor, that difference is frequently the whole difference.
If it is your adult son or daughter
It runs the other way too. Some of our patients are adults whose parent is the one arranging the care, and the reason for a visit at home is the same one: getting out to an appointment is the hard part.
We see adults of any age. Deborah is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner, so adults are what the practice is licensed and equipped for, and we do not see children.
If a home health agency is involved
We work alongside them. They carry out the plan of care, and the orders and paperwork that plan needs have to come from a provider. We keep their team in the loop on what we find and what we change.
We accept their insurance
Medicare covers medically necessary house call visits from an enrolled provider. What we accept.
Traditional Medicare & Medicaid
Eligible patients
Amerigroup
Medicaid / MA
Humana
Various plans
Tricare East
Military families
UnitedHealthcare
Various plans
Where we come
Across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, on both sides. Fort Worth and the towns west, Dallas and the suburbs around it, and everywhere else on the list. If the town you need is not listed, call before you assume the answer is no.
If it is your husband or wife rather than a parent, that situation has its own page. More questions are answered on the FAQ, including what counts as homebound.
Tell us what you have noticed
Call or text and describe the situation. We will tell you plainly whether a house call fits, and what the first visit looks like.