In-Home Care for Southeast Jacksonville, ZIP Codes 32224 and 32256

We serve two ZIP codes in Jacksonville, not the whole city. ZIP 32224 runs from the San Pablo area north of Beach Boulevard south across J. Turner Butler Boulevard, taking in the Mayo Clinic campus, the University of North Florida and the neighborhoods along Kernan Boulevard, Hodges Boulevard and San Pablo Road; a small piece of its southeast corner lies in St. Johns County. ZIP 32256 is the stretch below J. Turner Butler: Baymeadows and Deerwood, Sunbeam, the Gate Parkway and A. C. Skinner Parkway corridors and, farther south, eTown and Bayard. St. Johns Town Center, just north of J. Turner Butler, is in neighboring 32246 and outside our area. Both ZIP codes border 32081, where our office is, at 205 Marketside Avenue in Nocatee Town Center. From there, Baymeadows Road at Southside Boulevard is about 24 minutes’ drive in free-flowing traffic, and Kernan Boulevard at J. Turner Butler about 25. For the team, the services and how we work, start with home care across Ponte Vedra.

The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey estimates describe two young ZIP codes by Duval County standards: the median age is 33.6 in 32224 and 34.4 in 32256, against 36.9 countywide. Young is not the same as having no older residents. About 16,100 people in the two ZIP codes are 65 or older, roughly 7,100 in 32224 and 9,000 in 32256, more than 2,000 are 85 or older, and about 3,700 of those 65 and older live alone. Living alone works until a fall, a new diagnosis or a hospital stay, and then a family has to answer two questions quickly: who will be there at night, and who will help during the day. Overnight care puts someone awake in the house after dark, and hourly care covers bathing, meals, laundry and errands a few hours at a time. We are open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the phone at (904) 204-2046 is answered around the clock, and there is a registered nurse on our staff. Care starts with a free in-home assessment and a written plan. We are private pay, accept long-term care insurance and don’t bill Medicare or Medicaid.

Mayo Clinic opened its Jacksonville clinic in 1986, and Mayo Clinic Hospital, which has an emergency department, opened on the San Pablo Road campus in April 2008. Patients come from all 50 states and more than 80 countries, but from Hodges Boulevard at J. Turner Butler the hospital is about six minutes’ drive in free-flowing traffic, and about eight from Kernan Boulevard. Florida law makes Mayo in Jacksonville one of the state’s memory disorder clinics, for research and training in diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, and it is one of the American Parkinson Disease Association’s Centers for Advanced Research. The campus also runs Advanced Care at Home, Mayo’s hospital-at-home program for eligible patients: a Mayo doctor holds a video visit every day, a nurse checks in by video about four times a day, and the patient is asked to stay home until care is complete. If your parent comes home from Mayo Clinic Hospital or is treated at home through that program, hospital-to-home care covers the hours between visits: help to the bathroom and shower, meals that fit the discharge instructions, clean sheets, and a call to you when something seems off. After a memory evaluation, Alzheimer’s and dementia care keeps the days at home calm and predictable, with the same faces and the same routine, and for a parent treated there for Parkinson’s, Parkinson’s care plans the day around medication reminders, slow mornings and a safe path to the bathroom at night.

The University of North Florida is in 32224 as well, and its Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers non-credit classes designed for people 50 and older. A standing class on campus is the kind of weekly outing companion care keeps going once a parent stops driving. Brooks Rehabilitation’s San Pablo clinic, on Beach Boulevard just over the ZIP line in 32250, lists balance and vestibular, neurologic and geriatric rehabilitation among its services and is about eight minutes from Hodges at J. Turner Butler; a caregiver can drive, wait, and help with the walks the therapist assigns for home. Baptist Medical Center Beaches, with a 24-hour emergency room, is about 11 minutes east of the same corner; for the beach side, see home care in Jacksonville Beach. Cypress Village, a Life Plan Community on 120 wooded acres just off J. Turner Butler Boulevard, offers independent living, assisted living, memory care, and long-term care and rehab. For a family weighing a move like that, care at home keeps things steady while you visit, compare and decide.