Our Doctor's team: Riding up to homes like yours since 2011

Call now to learn why she joined our concierge group in 2023,  "Dr Nicole" Joel is a board certified Internal Medicine physician who brings great experience to our team. Those skills come from her years as a primary care attending physician at both University of California, San Diego Medical Center and Olive View UCLA Medical Center.

She did her Internal Medicine residency at Olive View Medical center in 2014. Then later at UCSD Medical Center Dr Nicole served as both primary care attending physician and as a teacher for new resident physicians and medical students in the Continuity Clinic and in the Ambulatory Care apprenticeship clinic.

Board-certified by ABIM (American Board Of Internal Medicine) since 2017, Dr Nicole is comfortable with the latest treatments in primary care. She has extensive experience in treating diabetes, asthma, heart disease, obesity and mental health. 

Call for the best. When we last slowed down to count, Dr. Crowe has more than 45,000 hours in the Emergency Department and personally treated over 110,000 patients herself.   

In addition to being a top ER doc, she is also Board Certified in Family Practice (ABFM), president and founder of this medical group.

Dr. Crowe is an Emergency Room physician since 1990 and licensed in both CA and IN.  She did her residency in Family Medicine and brings significant experience to you.  That background means she considers and treats the entire patient overall. 

Some people get lost in the corporate insurance-driven medical system. Her inspiration to treat those lost, missing or poorly served patients caused her to found this medical group. Her high expectations mean we are all driven consider and manage all aspects of a patient's care.  

In every single ER, whenever the hospital has a VIP arrive they want Dr Crowe to handle the case. 

One phone call and Dr. Jolie Pfahler brings a wealth of ER experience to you. A graduate of UCLA School of Medicine, Dr Pfahler loves being a physician. She enjoys working with the whole spectrum of patient ages, diagnoses, and treatments. 

Her clinical skills and procedures are excellent. She loves the immediate relief procedures often deliver for patients. Yet, Dr Pfahler is especially proud of being able to connect easily with patients. 

She understands the anxiety patients often have when seeing a doctor, discussing medical problems or experiencing medical emergencies. Dr Pfahler has a history of quickly gaining a patient’s trust, establishing a rapport and alleviating fears.

Beth’s background is Family Medicine with an emphasis on orthopedics and sports. A call for Beth gets one of our  trigger-point specialists to you -- doing those trigger point injections by hand or under ultrasound guidance. 

Beth is certified for therapeutic injections for migraines and more. She trained at Mount Sinai Hospital, Women’s Health Care, and graduated  from Chicago’s Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine. 

Darlene is a Registered Nurse who comes to us from the UCLA  Level 1 Trauma Center Emergency Room in  Westwood and the UCLA ER in Santa Monica. 

 She has been part of that high intensity ER system since 2006, and we love that Darlene is sharing her time here with the patients at HCDTO.

Olivia is a highly proficient LVN with both supervisory experience and IV certification. She also has a gracious accent, moved here from Uganda, and has extensive experience at Internal Medicine clinics, Behavioral Health and a large home health agency.

At the very large clinic, Facey, Olivia was one of the key nurses responsible for medication reconciliation both pre and post surgery. Those skills tie in with her huge IV experience to benefit you as our patient. 

Paul is often the first contact for many new patients -- and always for patients with critical or complex issues.  He may often be the first voice existing patients hear at 2 AM. 

More than anything else, his role is to already know or identify the resources to solve each novel problem-of-the-day.  Five seasons in Antarctica drove home the importance of operational planning early in his career. 

Paul wears multiple hats in order to "make magic happen at 11 PM" for patients.  

In addition to being Dr. Crowe's husband and COO, he manages operations processes, scheduling, hiring, training, sales, mobile medical technology.... (continued)

Jamie is enjoying a great career and is a highly competent asset to our team. She has deep experience in the ER, as a clinical instructor training brand new nurses, even more ER experience and as a Medical Technical Advisor on the studio lots.

Starting in the ER at St Joseph’s in Mission Viejo she rose rapidly to manage a 4 bed high acuity (complex) patient assignment. Jamie quickly grew into the role of preceptor for new hires in that ER and supervision of patient care.