If you’re managing an aging parent’s medications in Encino, you’re probably dealing with a situation that looks something like this. Mom or Dad is on seven or eight prescriptions, maybe more. There’s a cardiologist, a primary care doctor, probably a neurologist or an endocrinologist too. Every appointment adds something or changes something. The pharmacy fills them all, but the pharmacy only sees its own records — not the one your parent filled at a different chain six months ago on a GoodRx coupon. And somewhere in all of this, you’re the one who’s supposed to keep the whole picture straight.
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: look at the whole medication list, check it against itself, flag what’s duplicated or dangerous, and give the family one clear document they can actually use.
What a medication management visit looks like
A visit starts before we ever meet. You (or your parent) send me the current medication list — usually a photo of the pill bottles lined up on the kitchen counter, plus any discharge paperwork from recent hospital stays. I review it against the clinical picture before the appointment.
The visit itself is an hour at your parent’s kitchen table, or on a video call if that works better for your family. I go through every medication: what it’s for, who prescribed it, whether the dose still makes sense for their kidney function, whether any of the combinations raise red flags, and whether there’s a medication on the list that probably shouldn’t be there anymore.
After the visit, you get a written summary. The current medication list, the questions I’d ask each doctor, and the changes I’d recommend. You can share it with the PCP, the cardiologist, the hospitalist, anyone.
This is the same clinical eye I use in the hospital. 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 patients in the hospital, but now in your parent’s home, where they actually take their medications.
That includes:
- Comparing every prescription against every other prescription for interactions
- Flagging medications that are on the Beers Criteria list of drugs to watch in older adults
- Identifying anything on the list that was probably started during a hospital stay and should have been stopped afterward (antipsychotics, sleep aids, and PPIs are the usual offenders)
- Building a maintained medication list in a format that every specialist and pharmacist will actually read
- Catching refill timing problems before they turn into missed doses or duplicate supplies
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 the time to provide.
Who this is for
Families in Encino contact ManyMeds in a handful of specific situations:
- Your parent just came home from Providence Tarzana or Encino Hospital with a new medication list and nobody on the hospital team explained what changed.
- Your parent is managing five or more medications, seeing multiple specialists, and nobody has a complete picture of everything they’re taking.
- You live in Encino but your parent’s PCP, cardiologist, and other specialists are in different practices with different EHRs that don’t talk to each other.
- You live somewhere else and your parent is alone in Encino managing the whole list themselves.
- Something has changed — a fall, a new diagnosis, a confusion episode — and you’re wondering if a medication could be part of it.
If any of that sounds familiar, a free 15-minute phone call is the right next step.
Service area in the San Fernando Valley
ManyMeds serves Encino (ZIP codes 91316 and 91436) and the surrounding San Fernando Valley neighborhoods: Sherman Oaks, Tarzana, Woodland Hills, Studio City, Lake Balboa, Reseda, and nearby communities along the Ventura Blvd corridor. For in-home visits, Andrea travels across the Valley. For families in hillside or further-out areas, video visits work equally well and are often easier to schedule.
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
Andrea is a practicing hospital pharmacist, and many families reach out in the days after an aging parent has been discharged from:
- Encino Hospital Medical Center — on-site in Encino, right on Ventura Blvd
- Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center — approximately 3 miles west in Tarzana
- UCLA Medical Center — approximately 12 miles south in Westwood, one of the largest academic medical centers in Los Angeles
- Kaiser Permanente Panorama City — a common referral hospital for SFV Kaiser members
In the days immediately after hospital discharge is when medication errors are most likely to happen. For context, adverse drug events are the most common type of post-discharge complication in older adults. If your parent was discharged in the last week or two from any local hospital with a changed medication list, that’s often the most urgent situation ManyMeds sees.
Pricing
ManyMeds pricing is on the main site. The two main options are a one-time Medication Clarity Visit and an ongoing subscription for families who want continued support with refills, coordination, and check-ins. Private pay — insurance does not currently reimburse for 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 you’re dealing with. She tells you whether she can help, and if she can’t, she tells you that too. No pressure, no sales script.
Book the call at the top of this page, or go straight to the scheduling page.