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Dr. Alan Kronhaus
works to
overcome
barriers to
medical care
access by having physicians
see patients in their own homes.
“When it’s tough to
connect with a physician you
tend not to go,” Kronhaus
says. “You postpone and
postpone until there’s a crisis.”
Kronhaus co-founded
Doctors Making Housecalls
with his wife, Dr. Shohreh
Taavoni, about 10 years
ago in North Carolina’s
Research Triangle.
The practice now has
about 32 physicians making
approximately 45,000 home
visits a year in the Triangle
region, Kronhaus says,
adding patients include
mostly seniors with
complex conditions, as
well as some wealthy and
famous people seeking
privacy or convenience.
“It allows our clinicians
to function in a much more
proactive, preventionoriented
manner,” Kronhaus
says. “We can lavish care
on our patients, keep them
on an even keel and …
reduce unnecessary ER visits
and reduce unnecessary
hospitalizations.”
Doctors Making Housecalls
is covered under insurance;
however, patients must pay a
$95 travel fee, which can be
waived for senior community
residents when doctors make
a regular visit, he says.
Clinicians can learn
much from a patient’s home
environment, including
medications, environmental
hazards and diet, Kronhaus says.
“If you have a diabetic
patient whose glucose is
difficult to control and the
refrigerator is full of Boston
cream pie or something
you understand what the
challenge is,” Kronhaus says.
Doctors Making Housecalls
does not currently serve
New Hanover County,
but Kronhaus says he is
considering that for the
future once he recruits
enough clinicians.
“We’d love to extend the
service into the eastern
part of North Carolina —
Wilmington, Wrightsville
Beach,” Kronhaus says.
The Crest Fitness Club
Lumina Commons Shopping Center • 1962 Eastwood Road • Wilmington, N.C. 28403 • 910-509-3044
T he Crest Fitness Club, established in 1984, has always taken a boutique
club approach to fitness, specializing in personal fitness programming
and group exercise.
Celebrating a grand reopening at a new address, Nick and Wanda
Kentrolis, who have owned the club since 2002, now welcome new members
at 1962 Eastwood Road in the Lumina Commons Shopping Center.
“As a smaller fitness club, Wanda and I and our trainers have kept our
members happy over the past 10 years in a relaxed atmosphere,” Nick says.
His training style is evident in his fitness philosophy.
“In all honesty losing body fat and inches does not actually come from
working out harder or even more often, it comes from working out some and
eating more nutritious calories. When you lose weight the wrong way, the
pounds will come back, plus 20 more, every single time,” he says.
Regulars populate the club that always has room for newcomers
and walk-in clients. With inexpensive memberships, its hallmark is no
overcrowding.