Intro
Broward County holds a singular place in the multiple sclerosis community because the MS Focus Foundation — one of the country’s leading MS patient advocacy organizations — is headquartered right here in Fort Lauderdale. For Broward MS patients and their families, that proximity matters. It means access to programs that complement Medicare home health: the Homecare Assistance Grant, the Cooling Program, the Transportation Program, and a bilingual English-Spanish helpline staffed by people who understand MS.
MS Home Health Care, powered by Focus Family Care, serves all of Broward County with Medicare-certified skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and home health aide services. We coordinate routinely with the MS Focus Foundation when our patients need resources beyond what Medicare alone provides.
Service Coverage Across Broward County
- Fort Lauderdale — including downtown, Las Olas, and the surrounding Sunrise Boulevard corridor
- Hollywood and Hallandale Beach — covering Memorial Healthcare System's primary service area
- Pembroke Pines — Broward's second-largest city, including the Memorial Hospital West neighborhood
- Coral Springs and Parkland — northwest Broward
- Miramar — southwest Broward, near the Miami-Dade border
- Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach — northern Broward coastal communities
- Plantation, Sunrise, and Davie — central Broward, including the Cleveland Clinic Florida service area
- Tamarac, Margate, and Lauderhill
- Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
- Surrounding incorporated and unincorporated areas of Broward County
Our Promise
If you choose us, here’s what we promise: clinical care delivered by people who know MS. A care plan built around your specific symptoms, your specific home, and your specific family. Honest answers about what Medicare covers and what it doesn’t. And the kind of communication that means you never feel like you’re chasing us for an update.
If we ever fall short of that, tell us. We will fix it.
Better outcomes at home.
The MS Focus Foundation is located at 6520 N. Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale and serves the national MS community from its Broward headquarters. For our Broward patients, this is a real practical advantage. MS Focus offers programs that complement Medicare home health in ways most families don’t know exist:
- Homecare Assistance Grant — short-term funding for home care services beyond what Medicare covers
- Cooling Program — free cooling vests and neck wraps for heat-sensitive MS patients (Uhthoff’s phenomenon)
- Emergency Assistance Grant — one-time financial aid for rent, utilities, or medication
- Transportation Program — Lyft-based rides to neurology and infusion appointments
- Computer Program — laptops and desktops for MS patients on fixed incomes
- Brighter Tomorrow Grant — up to $1,000 per recipient for goods or services improving quality of life
- Bilingual English-Spanish helpline at 888-673-6287
Our medical social worker helps Broward families connect with MS Focus programs as part of the care plan. The combined benefit — Medicare-covered skilled care plus MS Focus community support — is often what makes the difference between a family staying together at home and a family forced toward facility care.
Broward has a strong neurology infrastructure, and skilled home health works best when integrated with specialty care:
- Memorial Neuroscience Institute — a National MS Society-recognized Center for Comprehensive MS Care, serving the Memorial Healthcare System network
- Cleveland Clinic Florida (Weston) — an extension of the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Cleveland Clinic Ohio, one of the world’s largest MS care programs
- Baptist Health Brain & Spine Care — with locations in Plantation and across Broward
- First Choice Neurology — with MS specialists serving Broward patients
- The University of Miami MS Center of Excellence Plantation location
If your loved one is established at any of these centers, our clinicians coordinate directly with their care team. If they need to establish a specialist relationship, our medical social worker helps facilitate that.
A lifetime of better health.
Starting Care in Broward County
RN initial assessments are typically completed within 24 to 48 hours of a complete physician referral, anywhere in Broward County. Our intake line is staffed 24/7.
Hospital Discharge Coordination in Broward
We accept hospital-to-home transitions across all major Broward hospital systems including Memorial Healthcare System (Memorial Regional, Memorial West, Memorial Pembroke, Memorial Miramar, Joe DiMaggio Children’s), Broward Health (Broward Health Medical Center, Broward Health North, Broward Health Coral Springs, Broward Health Imperial Point), Cleveland Clinic Florida, Holy Cross Health, and HCA Florida hospitals. Bedside intake during discharge is standard practice — care can begin at home within 24 hours
Heat and Hurricane Considerations in Broward
Broward’s heat and humidity are clinical realities for MS patients. Cooling vest education, hydration protocols, and scheduled outdoor activity timing are built into every Broward care plan. Hurricane preparedness includes coordination with Broward County’s Vulnerable Population Registry and Special Needs Shelter program for patients dependent on power-required medical equipment.
Information Gain: The Northeast Retiree MS Population in Broward
Broward County has a substantial population of MS patients who relocated from the Northeast and Midwest in retirement — many diagnosed in their 30s or 40s up north, now in their 60s, 70s, and 80s and dealing with progressive disease in a Florida climate that fights them every day. This population often arrived assuming Florida sunshine would help. Uhthoff’s phenomenon means the opposite: the heat and humidity here trigger MS symptom worsening with even small temperature increases.
Our care plans for this population focus on heat strategy, hurricane preparedness, and re-establishing the specialty neurology relationships that families left behind when they relocated. We’ve learned over the years that the relocation transition is its own clinical challenge — and we’ve built our intake to address it.
Medicare Coverage for Broward MS Patients
Original Medicare covers home health visits at $0 copayment for eligible MS patients across Broward County. Medicare Advantage plans must cover at least what Original Medicare provides. We verify your specific plan benefits before care begins, including for the Florida Blue, AvMed, Humana, and other Medicare Advantage products commonly used in Broward.