Remember the days when your doctor came to your house when you were sick? Do you ever wonder what happened to the house call? Visiting Physician Services, P.C. is happy to report house calls are back, and better than ever.

During the 1970s, the way America conducted business changed. Businesses realized they can “retrain” their customers to “improve efficiencies.” They trained us to use ATM cards instead of going to the bank, they trained us to bag our own groceries, and they trained us to get out of bed, get dressed, and drive to the doctor’s office (with a 102 degree fever). But maybe all of these “improvements” didn’t result in improved service or satisfaction. Visiting Physician Services wants to change all of that.

For a variety of reasons, house calls make good sense. First, many diseases and illnesses are debilitating and chronic. Thus, in addition to providing actual cures and remedies, medical practitioners also provide care oversight and illness management, allowing chronically ill patients to live their life more comfortably. Obviously, many of these homebound individuals do not have the luxury to visit a physician or advanced practice nurse on a regular basis.

Second, due to the increasing complexity of the business-side of medicine, hospitals are discharging people as soon as possible. Therefore, people often require more intensive and more sophisticated home care services.

Third, home care is actually cheaper than hospital or institutional care; the alternative to a house call is often costly ambulance transportation to the nearest hospital or physician's office. In many cases, a physician home visit can prevent the need for a visit to the emergency room and resulting hospital stay.

But perhaps the biggest reason for providing home healthcare is the benefit it provides to the patient. Visiting Physician Services has one focus: providing health care to the homebound. Since this is our specialty, our expert staff is fully skilled in providing the highest level of service available. We are responsive to our patients, their families and our referral sources. With a clinical staff of fifteen medical professionals serving Ocean, Monmouth, Union, Middlesex, Essex, and Somerset Counties, we can be responsive.

By seeing patients in their own comfortable environment, their health care experience is greatly improved.