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Psychiatric Care
Assessment, medication management and talk therapy, without the drive that stops many people from ever starting.
Telehealth PsychiatryColorado Springs service area
Colorado Springs care that does not depend on the drive.
Every Home Doc clinician appointment happens over video, so a Colorado Springs patient keeps the same clinician whether the roads are clear or not. There is no Home Doc office in the city, but Colorado Springs anchors its own twenty-five-mile Medical Assistant region.
Care is delivered by telehealth statewide, with Medical Assistant support within twenty-five miles of Colorado Springs.
Service lines
What a Colorado Springs patient can ask for.
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Palliative Care
Help with symptoms, difficult conversations and caregivers, running alongside whatever treatment continues.
Palliative Care03
Transitional Primary Care
Frequent check ins during the weeks that follow a hospital or rehabilitation stay, wherever it happened.
Transitional Primary CareIf palliative care is new to you, it helps to know what it is and how it differs from hospice. Colorado Springs is one of two areas where a Medical Assistant can come to you; Denver is the other, and the rest of Colorado is served by video.
How care reaches the city
Two ways Home Doc shows up in Colorado Springs.
Clinician appointments by video
Physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners see Colorado Springs patients over video, wherever in Colorado the patient happens to be.
Local Medical Assistant support
Within twenty-five miles of Colorado Springs a Medical Assistant may be available for in person vitals and technology help.
In person rounding happens at select participating long-term-care and rehabilitation facilities.
The local radius
Twenty-five miles, measured from Colorado Springs itself.
The Medical Assistant region here is drawn around Colorado Springs, independently of the Denver one. An address south of the city is judged by its distance from Colorado Springs, not by how far it happens to sit from Denver.
Inside that region a Medical Assistant may be available to record vitals in person, or to help a patient who is losing the fight with the camera, the microphone or the link. It is a scheduling question every single time, so intake confirms availability rather than assuming it. Outside the region, the video appointment stands on its own.
Continuity
The follow-up appointment is usually the one that gets skipped.
A follow-up is easy to postpone when it costs an hour of driving, a parking garage, and somebody willing to take the morning off work. Postponing it is how a small medication problem turns into a readmission.
A video appointment takes the travel out of that decision. The patient sits in their own front room, the clinician has the same twenty minutes, and the appointment that would have been pushed twice simply happens. Across months of a serious illness or a slow psychiatric adjustment, that consistency is the entire point.
- Appointments that survive weather, altitude and a bad pain day
- The same clinician across a long course of treatment
- A shorter gap between a symptom appearing and somebody hearing about it
- No half day arranged around a fifteen minute conversation
Getting started
Three things to settle before a first appointment.
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Name the problem, not the service
If you cannot tell whether this is a psychiatric, palliative or post discharge question, say exactly that. Sorting it out is intake's job, not yours.
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Decide who else is on the call
If a relative should be in the appointment, mention it now, so consent is recorded before the first visit rather than during it.
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Read the plan card out loud
The plans Home Doc bills are products from Medicare, Medicaid, Aetna, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare. An insurer on that list may still have plans or services it does not cover, so the product is verified first. See the insurance page, then become a patient.
Families at a distance
When the person doing the worrying lives three hours away.
Plenty of Colorado Springs patients have an adult child in another city, or another state, managing the worry by phone. Video visits let that person sit inside the appointment instead of receiving a summary of it afterwards.
With the patient's permission, a family member or caregiver can join from wherever they are, ask their own questions, and hear the plan first hand. It removes the game of telephone that normally follows a specialist visit, and it means whoever fills the pill organizer heard the instruction directly rather than second hand.
A caregiver joins only when the patient has agreed to it. That consent is the patient's to give and to withdraw.
Colorado Springs questions, answered.
Is there a Home Doc clinic in Colorado Springs?
No. There is no building here and no walk in location. What the city has is a Medical Assistant region drawn twenty-five miles around it, plus clinician appointments delivered over video.
I already have a doctor here. Does starting with Home Doc mean leaving them?
It does not. Home Doc is built to run alongside an existing primary care office or specialist, and with authorization your own doctor can receive a summary of what the video visit covered.
My father is here and I am in another state. Can I be in his appointment?
Yes, once he has agreed to it. After he gives permission, a relative or caregiver can join the video call from anywhere and ask questions directly.
What happens if my address is forty miles out of town?
The video appointment is unaffected, since clinician coverage reaches the whole state. What falls away is the option of a Medical Assistant coming out for vitals or technology help, because that is tied to the twenty-five-mile region.
Does the Medical Assistant radius here run from Denver?
No. The two regions are separate. This one is measured from Colorado Springs, so how far an address sits from Denver has nothing to do with whether it qualifies.
What if I cannot get the video call working?
Call the number below and somebody will talk you through it. Inside the local region, a Medical Assistant may also be available to sit with the patient and get the connection running.
A first conversation
Ask before committing to anything.
Nobody is enrolled on a phone call. Intake listens to the situation, explains what Home Doc can and cannot do from here, and says plainly what would come next.
Records can be sent to intake@myhomedoc.com or the Colorado fax, (720) 738-7873. General questions go to info@myhomedoc.com.