Special Needs: meet Doctors who understand

Imagine a world where healthcare comes to your doorstep, where compassionate doctors cater to the unique needs of individuals with both mental and physical special needs.

This medical group manages and supports a significant number of patients with special needs, their families, and also support the other specialists for those patients. 

Everything we do here starts and ends with the same question: "how is this best accomplished remotely, at home in the patient's own environment?”

Sometimes families just need blood draws done at home or vaccines given for a patient who doesn't travel easily. Our MA phlebotomists have extensive experience making this easy and comfortable — all done at home, in the one place your family member is most comfortable

Autistic, physically disabled or developmentally disabled.   The HCDTO team of dedicated professionals specializes in caring for patients who require extra attention and understanding. 

Occasionally the medical issues are more difficult, including managing patients with:

• Missing chromosomes or severe genetic abnormalities
• Duchennes muscular dystrophy, MS, ALS, Huntington's and other major diseases
• Auto immune cases, 
• Complex cases following major  organ failure

Our medical group has extensive experience with IV antibiotics administered in the home.  Even better we are typically thinking two and three steps ahead of the standard insurance company or Hospital answer.

Emergency situations 

Calling an ambulance is an area when thinking ahead matters. If our doctors recommend a patient go to the ER -- we go a step above and beyond.  

Our docs will call the ER – calling BEFORE the ambulance arrives at the hospital – to discuss the case coming in and the patients critical care issues.   This extra step makes a world of difference in getting the right care underway quickly with a better understanding at the Emergency Department.   

Many of our providers also work in the ERs throughout this region. The hospitals know when an HCDTO patient is coming in that we demand good communication and admission to the better hospitalist teams at each hospital.

A complex patient of ours was in the hospital and needed IV antibiotics. The hospital’s answer was discharge to home and administer “Brand X” as an IV antibiotic three times per day for two weeks. Trying to get that done at home is a massive challenge under both insurance and skilled nursing resources.

Instead our medical group went back to the hospital and the insurance company and proposed a different antibiotic that only had to be given JUST ONCE every seven days. That's only twice at home. Easy to do. Easy to manage. 

Our doctors have the experience — and the time — to think several steps ahead.