If you’re managing an aging parent’s medications in Calabasas, the challenge is usually not access to doctors — it’s the opposite. There are too many of them. The cardiologist at one system, the primary care doctor at another, the orthopedist across the 101, the pharmacy at the Commons on one prescription and the pharmacy in Woodland Hills on another. Every prescriber is doing their job. Nobody is looking at the full list.
That’s what I do. I’m Andrea Simon, a practicing hospital pharmacist, and ManyMeds is the private-practice version of the work I do on a hospital ward every day: review the whole medication list, check it against itself, flag what’s duplicated or inappropriate for an older adult, and give the family one clear document to actually use.
What a medication management visit looks like
The visit starts before we meet. You (or your parent) send me the current medications — ideally a photo of the pill bottles on the kitchen counter — plus any recent discharge paperwork. I review the list against the clinical picture before the appointment.
The visit itself is about an hour, either at your parent’s home in Calabasas or on a video call. I go through every medication: what it’s for, who prescribed it, whether the dose still makes sense given their kidney and liver function, whether any of the combinations raise a red flag, and whether there’s a medication on the list that probably shouldn’t be there anymore.
You leave with a written summary. The current medication list in a format every specialist and pharmacist will actually read, the questions I’d ask each doctor, and the changes I’d recommend.
This is the clinical eye I use on the ward every day. The setting is different. The work is the same.
What I actually do
The core service is a full medication review — the kind I do every day for hospitalized patients, but now in your parent’s home, where they actually take the medications.
That includes:
- Comparing every prescription against every other prescription for interactions
- Flagging medications that show up on the Beers Criteria list of drugs to watch in adults over 65
- Identifying anything on the list that was probably started during a hospital stay and should have been stopped afterward — antipsychotics, sleep aids, and PPIs (acid-reducing drugs) are the usual offenders
- Building a maintained medication list that works for the next doctor’s appointment, the next hospital stay, or the next ER visit
- Catching refill timing problems, cost shortcuts, and pharmacy-swap issues before they cause a missed dose
What I don’t do is replace your parent’s primary care physician. I’m the second set of eyes the medical system doesn’t have time to provide.
Who this is for
Families in Calabasas and Hidden Hills reach out in specific situations:
- Your parent just came home from West Hills, Tarzana, or Los Robles with a new medication list and the hospital team didn’t walk through what changed.
- Your parent has four or five specialists and the complete picture is scattered across four portals.
- One of the parents has early or moderate dementia and you’re worried some of the medications could be making cognition worse.
- A recent fall, a new confusion episode, or a near-miss has you wondering whether the medications are adding to the risk.
- You live in Calabasas but you’re also the out-of-state adult child for another aging parent, and you want the same quality of medication review closer to home.
If any of that resonates, a free 15-minute phone call is the right next step.
Service area in the western Valley
ManyMeds serves Calabasas (ZIP 91302) and the surrounding western San Fernando Valley and Conejo Valley communities: Hidden Hills, Agoura Hills, Woodland Hills, Topanga, and the inland Malibu corridor. Most in-home visits are within a 10-minute drive from Old Town Calabasas or The Commons. For gated communities, guest-list and access logistics get handled before the visit.
If you’re not sure whether your location is in Andrea’s service area, ask on the intake call. The answer is almost always yes. Not in one of the named cities? Video consultations are available to families anywhere in California.
Which hospitals the service coordinates with
Calabasas families most often use:
- West Hills Hospital & Medical Center — approximately 4 miles east on Sherman Way
- Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center — approximately 8 miles east on Ventura Blvd
- Los Robles Regional Medical Center — Westlake Campus — approximately 8 miles west, the primary hospital for the Ventura County side of the 101 corridor
Andrea is a practicing hospital pharmacist, so she understands how discharge counseling and medication reconciliation actually work at these hospitals — including where it consistently falls short. In the days immediately after hospital discharge is when medication errors are most common in older adults. If your parent was discharged in the last week or two with a changed medication list, that’s often the most urgent situation ManyMeds is called into.
Pricing
ManyMeds pricing is on the main site. Two main options: a one-time Medication Clarity Visit and an ongoing subscription for families who want continued support with refills, coordination, and monthly check-ins. Private pay — insurance does not currently reimburse pharmacist-led medication review outside of narrow Medicare MTM programs.
The free 15-minute call
Every engagement starts with a free 15-minute phone call. You tell Andrea what’s going on. She tells you whether she can help, and if she can’t, she tells you that too.
Book the call at the top of this page, or go directly to the scheduling page.