Baseline measurements
A full set of vital signs recorded properly, so every later visit has something honest to compare against.
In-home wellness assessments
A comprehensive wellness assessment is the full picture of your loved one's health, taken where it matters most — at home. A licensed Firefighter/Paramedic spends 60–90 unhurried minutes evaluating overall health, daily-living function, and the home environment, then gives your family a clear written summary and practical recommendations. It's the ideal starting point for most families, and the foundation every Salus membership builds on.
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What is a comprehensive wellness assessment?
A comprehensive wellness assessment is a single 60–90 minute home visit that reviews a person's overall health, how they manage day to day, and whether their home still suits them. One Firefighter/Paramedic gathers the whole picture, writes it down, and hands your family a summary they can take to a physician.
It is the widest visit Salus offers, because it produces the baseline everything afterwards is measured against. Book it standalone, or as the opening chapter of ongoing in-home preventive care in Hialeah and across South Florida.
The components
What a comprehensive assessment covers
The flagship visit gathers in one sitting what Salus otherwise performs as separate services, then reads them together.
Everything in the cabinet
A medication review covering prescriptions, over-the-counter bottles and supplements — including ones nobody thought to mention.
Balance and mobility
A fall risk assessment that watches how someone actually stands, turns and walks in their own rooms.
The home itself
A home safety assessment of lighting, thresholds, bathrooms and the routes taken at three in the morning.
Daily living
Meals, sleep, driving, bathing, company — the parts of a life that rarely come up in a short appointment.
The whole visit
Included in every wellness visit
- Head-to-toe health evaluation
- Vital signs & baseline measurements
- Medication review
- Fall-risk & home safety screening
- Lifestyle & daily-living review
- Written summary with personalized recommendations
$199 one-time · included in all memberships · See all pricing →
Before the visit
How long it takes, and what to have ready
- Set aside 60 to 90 minutesWe work at your loved one's pace and stop when they need to.
- Put every medication in one placeBottles, patches, drops, vitamins and anything bought without a prescription.
- Dig out recent paperworkDischarge instructions or specialist letters from the last year, if you have them.
- Have a family member thereIn the room or on speakerphone. Two memories are better than one.
What you take away
The written summary you receive
Nothing useful happens if the visit lives only in someone's memory. Every assessment ends in a written document: what was measured, what was observed, what your loved one told us, and practical recommendations ranked by what we would attend to first. It is written in plain English rather than clinical shorthand, so a son in another time zone reads it as easily as a physician's office does. Anything warranting medical attention is set out clearly for their doctor — we flag and refer, we do not diagnose or prescribe.
Who books it
Who tends to book this visit
Rarely the person being assessed. Usually the adult child who has been quietly worrying since their last visit home.
- Families who noticed something felt different over the holidays
- Adult children living out of state or out of the country
- Parents newly living alone after losing a spouse
- Households weighing whether staying at home still works
- Anyone juggling several specialists with no single overview
- Caregivers who want a second, trained opinion
A wellness assessment is a planned, unhurried visit — it is not urgent care and does not stand in for it. Anyone with symptoms that could signal an emergency needs 911, not an appointment.
Questions
Before you book
Most assessments take 60–90 minutes, at your loved one's pace. We never rush a client, and family members are welcome to join in person or by phone.
No. The assessment is available as a one-time visit at $199, and it is also included in all memberships. Many families start with the single visit and decide afterwards.
Common, and usually fair enough. It helps to frame it as a check on the house as much as on her. Our paramedics are used to visits that begin guarded and end over coffee.
We give you the written summary to share, and with your permission we can send it on. Decisions about care stay between your loved one and their physician.
Once a year suits many families, sooner after a hospital stay or a fall. Between assessments, shorter wellness monitoring visits keep the picture current.
Worth reading first
Explainer
What Is Preventive Paramedic Care? A New Kind of Healthcare, Explained
Where this model sits between a doctor's office and an ambulance.
Guide
Aging in Place in South Florida: Keeping Mom and Dad Independent
What has to be true for staying at home to keep working.
Start with one complete visit
Start with a $99 introductory visit — no membership required, no pressure, honest answers.