House Call Programs provide medical care and support services to elderly and homebound people in the comfort of their own home. Medical care at home can make a world of difference to both the person with LBD and their care partner by alleviating many tough aspects of having to travel to a doctor’s office or hospital. Service is provided by physicians and nurse practitioners through the following programs
Per The New York Times on 11/4/16, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/health/older-patients-community-paramedics.html?_r=1: “A lot of what’s been done in the E.R. can safely and effectively be done in the home,” said Karen Abrashkin, an internist with the House Calls program. For frail, older people with many health problems, Dr. Abrashkin noted, “the hospital is not always the safest or best place to be.” Geriatricians have warned for years about the ways in which hospitalization can accelerate older patients’ decline, even when physicians succeed in fixing the medical problem at hand.
Emergency rooms often serve as gateways to longer stays, and the time spent in bed leads quickly to deconditioning. Older people who walked in on their own often cannot walk out, and need rehab and physical therapy to try to regain their mobility. They’re also vulnerable to hospital-acquired infections, including the rampant C. difficile, that can prove difficult to eradicate. Newly prescribed medications can interact badly with those they already take. Delirium strikes as many as half of hospitalized older patients, studies have shown; it’s especially common among the cognitively impaired.
Manhattan
If you live below 59th Street
Beth Israel Senior Health House Calls: 212-206-1299
Chelsea/Village House Call Program of Mt. Sinai: 212-604-6534
If you live above 59th Street
Mt. Sinai Visiting Doctors Program: 212-241-4141
www.mountsinai.org/visitingdoctors
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Wright Center on Aging: 212-746-7000
Upper East Side (10 block radius around 77th Street and 1st Avenue)
The Edmond J. Safra Interdisciplinary Home Visit Program for people with Parkinson’s disease, which is part of the Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders at NYU Langone: http://nyulangone.org/
Doctors on Call: 718-238-2100, https://doctorsoncallnyc.com
Brooklyn
Maimonides Medical Center Home Medical Care for Elderly Program: 718-283-7072
Housecalls for the Homebound: 718-360-9370
Doctors on Call: 718-238-2100, https://doctorsoncallnyc.com
Staten Island
Doctors on Call: 718-238-2100, https://doctorsoncallnyc.com
Queens
North Shore-LIJ House Calls Program: 718-830-4327
Housecalls for the Homebound: 718-360-9370
Doctors on Call: 718-238-2100, https://doctorsoncallnyc.com
The Bronx
Montefiore Medical House Calls: 718-405-7742
Doctors on Call: 718-238-2100, https://doctorsoncallnyc.com
Lower Westchester
Montefiore Medical House Calls: 718-405-7742
Doctors on Call: 718-238-2100, https://doctorsoncallnyc.com
Long Island – Nassau County
Northwell (formerly) North Shore-LIJ House Calls Program: 516-876-4100
Dr. Sheryl Pearl (5 Towns area), 516-569-0776, pager: 1-888-847-1326
Doctors on Call: 718-238-2100, https://doctorsoncallnyc.com
Long Island – Suffolk County
Island House Doctor: 631-514-7578, http://www.islandhousemd.com
Dr. Canavarros, Farmingville Medical Care, 631-451-2211
Doctors on Call: 718-238-2100, https://doctorsoncallnyc.com
