HomeDoc- doctor at your home

HomeDoc service in Kyiv (Doctor’s housecall services in Kyiv)

We all know that it is better to contact the clinic and get doctor’s appointment if you feel bad. If, for various reasons, it is not possible to visit clinic, you can choose an alternative option: request housecall from clinic and doctor will visit you at home or in hotel. Universum clinic provides such a service in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine, such as: Lviv, Chernivtsi, Uzhgorod, Khmelnitsky.

When doctor’s house call is required?

There is nothing extraordinary in getting medical care at home: people call an ambulance for emergencies, call the doctor if there is no way to get to the hospital.

There are enough reasons for this:

• it is far and inconvenient to get to the clinic
• you have any health disorders, that do not require an ambulance call;
• a person with limited mobility, for example with diseases of the spine, joints, lower extremities, person after a stroke or heart attack;
• case when person want to avoid contact with a lot of people to avoid respiratory infections such as influenza, COVID-19 and others;
• the patient has a chronic illness that requires ongoing treatment with prescription drugs;
• if medical monitoring of health is needed, medical procedures are required at home (injections, droppers, dressings);
• there is simply no time or desire to come to the clinic and stand in line at the reception, under the doctor's office.

By calling a Universum clinic doctor to your home, you will get a quick response and professional medical advice with your personal comfort at your location.

Symptoms for doctor’s home visits

There are many symptoms and disorders, that require not emergency medical care from ambulance, but the consultation of an experienced, qualified physician.

The reason to contact the Universum clinic and get medical care with comfort and secure:

• general fatigue;
• body temperature increase, fever;
• nausea, vomiting, looseness (diarrhea);
• abdominal pain, headaches;
• symptoms of SARS - cough, sore throat;
• blood pressure increases or decreases;
• shortness of breath, a feeling of lack of air, the inability to take a deep breath;
• muscles, joints pain;
• disorders of the genitourinary system - inflammation, difficulty urinating;
• skin itching, skin rash;
• severe runny nose, earache, hearing loss;
• bouts of dizziness, imbalance;
• any chronic disease disorders, for example, blood glucose increases in case of diabetes mellitus.

Doctor’s home visit will be especially relevant if a child or an elderly person falls ill. It is not always easy to get to the clinic for examination and diagnosis, and for children it can also be extremely uncomfortable consultation in a hospital.

If you need medical care at home, doctor’s house call services are available: Kyiv is included in the list of cities where the Universum clinic provides such a service.

Available medical specialists for house call

You can order in Universum clinic significant range of medical services.

We can provide on-site consultation of:

• general practitioner-family medicine doctor;
• pediatrician;
• ENT doctor;
• surgeon;
• neurologist;
• orthopedist-traumatologist.

Also, if you need nursing care, for example, in order to carry out the prescribed manipulations or medical procedures, Universum Clinic can organize nurse visit.

Medical team from Universum Clinic can provide during house call visit:

• take blood samples for analysis at home;
• conduct ultrasound diagnostics;
• record and analyze the ECG.

You can contact Universum clinic any way: phone calls from the numbers on the website, indicate your phone number in the callback service window, leave a request in electronic form. Clients support team will call you back and help you arrange on-site medical assistance to the extent necessary for a particular situation.

List of services in case of doctor's house call

A doctor or nurse comes to a house call in hygienic overalls, shoe covers. Patient’s examination begins only after doctor’s hands hygienic procedures.

The team has an individual approach to filling consultations at home. Our physician provides both mandatory and optional services related to the patient’s condition:

• collects anamnesis from the patient and his relatives;
• conducts a physical examination - palpation, auscultation, control of the patient's neurological status;
• measures blood pressure, counts the pulse rate, respiratory movements;
• conducts rapid tests to detect infections, rapid tests for the diagnosis of diseases, assessment of the patient's condition;
• measures blood glucose levels;
• a pulse oximeter evaluates the saturation of the blood with oxygen;
• assesses the possibility of conducting a full-fledged consultation outside the clinic;
• if necessary, records the ECG and decodes it;
• treats wounds, makes dressings;
• performs anesthesia, puts blockades in case of acute pain syndrome;
• if necessary, the specialist conducts an ultrasound of the internal organs with a modern compact device.

Based on the results of the examination, the doctor decides which home health services the patient needs. This may be the appointment of a course of treatment, including nursing manipulations. A doctor will write a prescription for the necessary prescription drugs directly at home. Be sure to give recommendations on the next steps: how to control the condition, what are the signs of its deterioration, when to undergo a second consultation.

In some cases, the doctor may recommend hospitalization to the patient, then medical transportation. Carefully and under professional supervision, we will deliver the patient to the hospital.

On a nursing call, our health worker can take blood samples at home to deliver them to the laboratory, the results are reported to the person in the way that is preferable to him.

Making the Most of Your Doctor's House Call

Universum clinic offers this service not only in Kyiv, but also in other cities and 50 km distance from Kyiv in Kiyv region.

Contact the clinic client’s support team if you need at home:

• get doctor’s consultation of various profiles;
• for medical manipulations and procedures;
• be examined by ECG or ultrasound;
• conduct rapid tests and establish the correct diagnosis.

The specialist forms the team depending on the situation and sends the car to the address as quickly as possible.

When emergency medical assistance is required, the client’s support team recognizes such cases, suggests what to do. This is how we help to maintain the health of adults and children, even without an on-site consultation of a doctor.

List of used sources

1. California Department of Social Services, “THE HOME VISIT CHECKLIST”;

2. West Pennine Local Medical Committee  “HOME VISITING GUIDELINES”.