At East Penn House Calls, we recognize that you face a difficult choice when you are acutely ill or injured.  As hospital emergency rooms face more and more overcrowding, the time you must wait to see a doctor continues to lengthen.  Sadly, it is when you feel your worst, that you are forced to wait the longest.  Yet, most times when you visit the emergency department, the issue is not so much that you need medical care there.  Rather, the issue is that you need medical care now.
                                      East Penn House Calls offers a new choice when you need medical care now – we bring the emergency room to you. Technologic advances allow us to bring lab equipment, diagnostic tests, suture materials, even IV fluids and medication directly to you.  In most cases, our emergency physician can be at your home or workplace within one hour of receiving your call.  Our physician, experienced with both adult and pediatric emergencies, can repair lacerations, assess injuries, and treat illness.  If needed, the physician can perform most commonly ordered blood tests (blood count, electrolytes, liver and kidney function tests), and the results will be available in your home within 15 minutes of the blood draw.

Of course, if you think you are having a heart attack or stroke, or other immediate life-threatening illness, then you should call 911 and go to the emergency room.  There are certainly good times to use all the latest generation equipment and extra personnel available at the emergency room.  For the other times, you deserve to be treated in the privacy and comfort of your own home, and at a cost that is fair.  With East Penn House Calls, Emergency Medicine Has a New Home . . . Yours.

East Penn House Calls PC, PO Box 423, Emmaus, PA  18049; ph 484-788-9931; fax 484-363-4032