Jason R. Abney, D.O. is the Medical Director, Founder and CEO of Doctors Direct Medical Group. Dr. Abney is dual board certified in both Family Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care. Dr. Abney has been practicing homebound medicine for almost a decade. He prides himself on providing exceptional medical care and being available to his patients and their families. Dr. Abney values spending time discussing a personalized care plan and partnering with his patients and families. He believes that optimizing quality of life and comfort are as important as treating the patient’s medical conditions and focuses on the whole individual.
An Nguyen, D.O. was born and raised in Orange County, California, where she now practices medicine. Dr. Nguyen earned her medical degree from Touro University-Nevada and completed the family medicine residency training program from what is now PIH (Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital) Health Downey Hospital. She has a particular interest in homebound, geriatric, and hospice/palliative care medicine, fields in which she has worked for nearly a decade. She has had experience as associate medical director of a medical group as well as medical director of both home health and hospice. Dr. Nguyen strongly believes in valuing quality of life and comfort in addition to treating various complex medical conditions, and aims to set her best foot forward in the care of each individual patient.
Kristina Nguyen, FNP, has a true passion for homebound care. Kristina, who also goes by Tina, is a lifelong learner and has shown a passion for education and service to her community by elevating her knowledge and earning degrees from beginning as a CNA to now a Family Nurse Practitioner. She has focused on geriatric care in her career from early on. As a CNA she worked in assisted living where she was exposed to hospice care, home health, and palliative care. She continued in geriatrics in her nursing work and now as a fantastic Residentialist Nurse Practitioner. We are so happy to have Tina on our team!Is the House Call Doctor Coming Back?
When Simon Jacobsen’s aging mother needed to see a doctor, she first had to descend the stairs – a journey that once left her with a broken neck. After that, Jacobsen and his father carried her down themselves, but their method was hardly graceful.
“We were just a couple of gorillas doing the best we could,” says Jacobsen, a 49-year-old who lives in the District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the care his mom received was fragmented, time-consuming and physically and emotionally exhausting for the entire family.