Coral Springs was planned in the 1960s and filled in through the 1970s and 1980s, so the typical house here is a family home first. Salus books a licensed Firefighter/Paramedic into that house on a day you pick, to look at your parent, their medications and the building itself.
Who books in Coral Springs
Roughly one in eight Coral Springs residents is 65 or older, and only about one in six of those older residents lives alone. The rest live with a spouse, with an adult child's family, or close enough that a son or daughter drives over most weekends. So the caller is often the adult child who has noticed the pill organiser filled wrong, or Dad taking the stairs one at a time.
The visit we suggest first is a Comprehensive Wellness Assessment. It covers vital signs, every medication in the house, a balance and mobility screen, and a walk through the rooms your parent actually uses. That record is the reference point for every later visit.
The house itself
The median Coral Springs home dates from 1987 and about six in ten are owner-occupied, so a parent here is often still in the house the children grew up in. Built for young families, these houses have features that deserve a second look once the owners are in their seventies and eighties; about three in ten residents over 65 report a disability.
Commonly added to the first visit
Each can be booked alone or folded into the baseline visit; all three happen at your parent's address.
When a parent moves in, their prescriptions move with them, and the pharmacy, the cardiologist and the new primary care doctor may each hold a different list. We reconcile the bottles against those lists and note every discrepancy for the doctor.
A screening, not a diagnosis. Orientation, recall, speech, grip and gait are checked in a calm room and recorded so a change between visits can be spotted. Anything unusual is flagged for a physician; we do not name a condition.
Firefighters see house fires from the inside, and that shapes this walk-through: alarm placement, the dryer vent, extension cords behind the recliner, the stove your parent still cooks on, and whether the bedroom window opens.
After the paramedic leaves
More we can bring to the door
Salus also offers Primary Health Assessments, Vital Signs Monitoring, Fall Risk Assessments, Home Safety Assessments, Post-Hospital Follow-Up for the weeks after a discharge from Broward Health Coral Springs on Coral Hills Drive and Ongoing Wellness Monitoring; plans and pricing shows how they combine. We cover the whole city, from Mullins Park and Coral Square to the streets west of the Sawgrass Expressway, plus the neighbouring municipalities: Parkland to the north, Coconut Creek to the east, Margate and North Lauderdale to the south-east and Tamarac to the south. Pompano Beach, Fort Lauderdale and the rest of Broward are on the service areas page.
Before you book
Yes, provided your father has agreed to the visit and is comfortable receiving the paramedic on his own. Dial in for the wrap-up from the office if you like; the written summary reaches you exactly as it would if you had been at the table. If you would rather be present, we schedule around your hours.
Only the rooms your mother uses: in a multigenerational household that usually means her bedroom, her bathroom, the kitchen and the route between them, including any stairs or step-downs. The children's rooms and the garage are skipped unless she passes through them. Everything is judged against her mobility, not a generic standard.
Their consent is required, so the first step is framing the visit as a check-up at home rather than an intervention. A uniformed Firefighter/Paramedic who takes their blood pressure, listens and does not lecture is often accepted where a relative's nagging was not. If they still decline, we do not visit.
The written summary is your mother's to share with any physician she chooses, including specialists at the hospital, and the items needing a doctor's decision sit at the top of it. Salus has no arrangement with any hospital or practice; we are an independent company, and passing the summary on is the family's choice.
Each person is assessed individually, with their own vital signs, medication list and mobility screen, so it is booked as two assessments. The home walk-through is done once and covers both of them. Call (786) 330-8016 and we will explain how a couple in the same house is priced before you commit.
Please read
A scheduled Salus appointment is never the answer to something happening right now. Chest pain, a drooping face, slurred words, sudden breathlessness, or a fall your parent cannot get up from all need an ambulance, and the number is 911. Our job is the routine check-up between those moments, carried out by a private company with no connection to any fire department.
From the Salus blog
The changes to a house that let a parent stay in it longer.
Alarm age, cooking habits and escape routes, from a firefighter's point of view.
Three services with similar names, and how to tell which one a parent needs.
A first visit costs $99 and takes place in your parent's home, at a time that suits the whole family.
