By just about any standard, the Magnolia State is in need of medical intervention: It ranks 50th in health, 49th in preventable hospitalizations, and 48th in access to care.

The causes of Mississippi’s malaise are obvious: It’s first in heart disease, second in Alzheimer’s, and second in diabetes, according to rankings by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. But to these issues, Greg Tisdale is bringing a home care solution.

Tisdale, a nurse practitioner, MSN, FNP-C, opened On-Site Health LLC last year in Flowood, MS. It’s been an exciting challenge developing his practice, which is almost exclusively focused on providing house calls.

“Most of On-Site Health’s patients are homebound and bed-bound,” Tisdale said. “I’ve gotten two referrals on patients that another provider wouldn’t take on because the patients had ‘a lot going on.’ But all of my patients have a lot going on. I can’t fix everything all at once, but we’ll do one thing at a time.”