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While many hospitals have raised pay to attract and keep staff and have hired expensive traveling medical professionals, private ambulance companies haven’t been able to do that because their rates are set by the government and private contracts.
Jess Deyo
After falling ill in the 1930s, it was common to make a call and wait for a doctor to arrive for care in the comfort of your home. Since then, medicine has advanced and house calls have ceased to exist for the most part. Columbus-based Mobile Med is bringing them back.
Mobile Med was launched in June 2019, and the healthcare workers who made it happen are passionate about the revival of the house call. Now from a smartphone, perhaps while lying on the couch, patients in central Ohio can get medical advice in minutes.
For co-founder Ryan Cantzler, a board-certified emergency room physician at Mount Carmel Health System, painting a picture of the convenience of Mobile Med is easy.