At-Home Health Care

The return of the doctor house call, By Mattie Quinn, September 28, 2017, Governing: “‘Do you hear that?’ asks Beth Hungate, as she walks into an apartment in the historic neighborhood of Richmond, Va., known as ‘the Fan.’ Hungate, a nurse practitioner at Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) medical center, is there to see a patient of hers, a woman named Luckie Locke. Locke has been in quite a bit of discomfort recently and requested that Hungate stop by. But as Hungate walks through the door, she notices an incessant beeping noise. Hungate scans the apartment for the source of the beeping; eventually she traces it to a carbon monoxide detector. She calls her clinical coordinator to get a nonemergency fire department truck to come by. ‘You see? I would have never known this if I wasn’t coming to her house,’ Hungate says…”