Fall Risk Assessment
Balance, gait and strength tested in the person's own hallway, then matched against the unit: bathroom transfers, the lanai step, rugs on tile, the 3 a.m. route to the bathroom.
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In-home preventive paramedic care in Sunrise, Florida
Roughly one in five Sunrise residents is 65 or older, and just under a quarter of those older residents live alone. Salus sends a Firefighter/Paramedic to the home on a date you pick — no emergency, no ambulance — to take vital signs, review medications and walk the unit for hazards, then put it in writing.
Between appointments
Blood pressure has a pattern, and one office visit cannot show it
A physician who sees a Sunrise patient every few months gets one set of numbers, taken in a clinic after a drive and a wait in a lobby. That reading is real, but it is a single point. A home series on ordinary days gives a slow upward drift, or a new swing between readings, a chance to be noticed.
On a vital signs monitoring visit the paramedic logs pressure, pulse, oxygen level, temperature and breathing rate against earlier visits, asks about dizziness on standing, and notes which medications were actually taken that morning. A value outside the person's usual range is flagged for the physician to interpret; we do not diagnose or adjust medication. Our guide to a parent's blood pressure numbers explains why one high reading is rarely the whole story.
Condominium living in Sunrise
Four things a condo unit hides from a checklist written for houses
Sunrise is a condominium city: Sunrise Lakes Phase 3 alone describes itself as a 55+ active senior community of ninety-three buildings. With the median Sunrise home dating from 1983, many units are entering their fifth decade.
- Elevator dependence when the power goes out. A third-floor unit is fine until an outage stops the lift. We ask whether the person can manage the stairwell, and whether refrigerated medication or an oxygen concentrator makes an outage a medical problem.
- The building's alarm is not the unit's alarm. The corridor system signals a building fire; it does not wake someone whose own kitchen is smoking. We test the in-unit detector, check its age, and confirm it is audible from the bedroom.
- Sliding-door tracks and the step to the lanai. The raised track and the drop to the screened patio are crossed several times a day, usually while carrying something. We watch the person cross them, in daylight and after dark.
- Medications kept in a humid bathroom. A windowless condo bathroom in a Florida summer is a poor place for tablets, test strips and inhalers. We check where everything lives and what has clumped, discoloured or expired.
What you receive
Inside the written summary that follows a Sunrise visit
Around a third of older Sunrise residents live with a disability, and the reader is often an adult child in Weston, Davie or another state. The summary is written for that reader, in plain language, with identical copies to the client and whoever they authorise.
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A vitals table with earlier readings alongsideEach measurement, the time and position it was taken in, and how it compares with previous visits.
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A medication reconciliationEvery bottle in the unit listed against what the person believes they take, with duplicates, expired items and possible interactions marked for the physician.
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Home-safety findings, rankedWhat was checked, what looked fine, and the changes worth making first — cheap fixes separated from those needing the condo association.
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Items for the doctorA short, separate list the physician should see — an unusual reading, a new symptom, a medication question — ready for the next appointment.
Most requested
Three visits Sunrise families tend to start with
Fire Safety Assessment
Detectors, the stove and toaster area, extension cords behind furniture, oxygen tubing near heat, and a realistic escape route for someone who cannot take the stairs quickly.
Post-Hospital Follow-Up
HCA Florida Westside Hospital and its 24-hour emergency department sit in neighbouring Plantation. Whichever hospital your parent comes home from, we compare vitals with the discharge paperwork and sort new prescriptions from old in the first days.
The rest of the Salus range is available in Sunrise on the same terms: a comprehensive wellness assessment covering person and home together, a shorter primary health assessment, a stand-alone medication review, a neurological screening, a room-by-room home safety assessment, and ongoing wellness monitoring. We also visit the communities adjoining Sunrise — Plantation, Tamarac, Lauderhill, Davie and Weston — with pages for Tamarac, Plantation, Fort Lauderdale and Coral Springs. Full list: service areas.
Please read
A scheduled visit is never the right answer to an emergency
Nothing about Salus is an emergency service. Crushing chest pain, new confusion, a drooping face, breathing that has become hard work, or a fall with a possible head or hip injury need 911, not a booking. Broward's 911 system and the emergency departments around Sunrise exist for those moments; a Salus appointment belongs to the quiet days between them.
Sunrise questions
Answers for Sunrise households
Yes. Gated entrances and guest registration are simply part of visiting Broward condominiums. Tell us the community and phase when you book, and we will ask you or the resident to add our paramedic to the gate list for the appointment window. The visit itself happens inside the unit.
We can schedule a visit before a storm to review medication supply, powered equipment and the stairwell question for upper-floor units, and again once roads reopen. We cannot perform welfare checks during a storm or an active outage — that is what 911 is for.
They may be, and that difference is itself useful to his physician. We take readings seated and rested in his own chair, record the time and whether his morning medication was taken, and log them alongside earlier visits. Interpreting the series and changing treatment remains the cardiologist's call.
Both, if you book a comprehensive wellness assessment. The person is examined first — vitals, mobility, medications, how they are really managing — then the paramedic walks the unit with them: bathroom, kitchen, sliding door, lanai, smoke alarm, route to the exit. Single-focus visits are also available.
Your mother receives it, and so does anyone she authorises at booking — typically the adult child who arranged the visit, sometimes a neighbour who checks in. Nearly a quarter of Sunrise residents over 65 live alone, so that authorisation step is built into every first appointment.
Related reading
Two guides worth reading before a Sunrise visit
Reading the Numbers
Understanding Your Parent's Blood Pressure Numbers
The two figures explained, plus how a home series helps the physician more than a lone reading.
Storm Planning
Hurricane Preparedness for Seniors in South Florida
Medication supply, powered equipment, upper-floor units and whether to evacuate, worked through for families.
Book a paramedic visit to a Sunrise home
A first visit is $99 — one uniformed Firefighter/Paramedic, one unhurried appointment, one written summary you can act on.