What is mobile IV therapy? It's an IV drip that comes to you. A nurse brings the bag, the pole and sealed supplies to your house, office or vacation rental, starts the line, and stays put until it's empty. In Flagler Beach that nurse is Lisa, and she owns the business. Below is a first visit with us, in the order it happens.
What's in the bag
Same basic setup as a hospital IV, minus the hospital. Cleveland Clinic's health library describes IV fluids as liquids that go into your veins through a tube. Every bag on our menu starts with normal saline, which Lisa's own Simply Hydrate page calls sterile salt water matched to your blood. Simply Hydrate is just that, one liter, nothing added.
The other bags add vitamins or minerals. Cleveland Clinic's Health Essentials team describes IV vitamin therapy as vitamins, minerals and antioxidants sent straight into the bloodstream through a vein, usually in the arm. The same article says the evidence for a general wellness benefit is limited. Harvard Health went further in October 2026. The evidence doesn't back the marketing claims, and IV therapy has risks of its own.
We'd rather you read that here than find it later. It's why every ingredient on our IV menu gets a plain description, and why the page says those descriptions are not medical claims.
Step one: the Good Faith Exam
This happens before Lisa gets in the car. IV fluids, and the vitamins and medications in them, are prescription therapies. A registered nurse can place the line and watch you. She can't prescribe it. So a licensed provider clears you first.
The Good Faith Exam is a short video visit through Qualiphy, the telehealth service Lisa uses. You open the link on your phone, fill in a few forms, and talk to a provider for about 5 to 10 minutes. Have your ID, your medications, your allergies and your health history handy. Provider hours run 9 AM to 10 PM Florida time.
One exam covers you for a year, as long as nothing changes in your health history. New clients don't pay extra for it, because it's included in the IV price. Not cleared means no bag that day, and no charge for one. Booking for a group? Everybody does their own.
Step two: booking, and getting the room ready
Book on Vagaro, or text Lisa at 386-387-9229. Either way she confirms the time with you herself. She works 9 AM to 7 PM, every day, and she can usually get to you within an hour of booking, depending on distance and what else is on her calendar.
Put the full address in the booking. Unit number, gate code, where to park. For the rental on A1A, that's the difference between Lisa at your door and Lisa circling the lot. In the room you need a comfortable chair and somewhere near it to hang the bag. A porch or a balcony works if there's a spot for the bag. Lisa brings everything else.
What is mobile IV therapy like once Lisa arrives
Vitals come first, before anything is opened. If your numbers aren't safe, the bag waits. And she does wait. One of her Google reviews describes Lisa coming back twice before she ran anything.
Then the line goes in. It's the same routine you'd get in a hospital bed. The skin gets cleaned, usually inside the elbow or on top of the hand. A sterile needle goes into the vein, and yes, it may pinch. Lisa's own description is a quick pinch, then nothing. She learned the stick drawing blood as a phlebotomist and kept at it as an ER nurse. The rest of her background is on the Meet Lisa page.
Last step, someone checks the line and watches how much fluid goes in. That's Lisa, in the chair next to you, from the first drop to the last. Most bags take about an hour. NAD+ is slow on purpose and runs two to three hours.
What to watch for, and what to tell her
An IV at home is still an IV, so the risks are the usual ones. One is phlebitis, the vein swelling because of the IV. Another is infiltration: if the needle shifts, fluid can leak into the tissue around the vein. Speak up about discomfort at the IV site, a loose needle, a headache or trouble breathing. Say it out loud. She's right there.
Some people should talk to their own doctor first. Dr. Melissa Young, in that Health Essentials article, says to check with your regular provider before trying IV vitamin therapy. She says to skip it if you're seeing a provider for heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease or a pregnancy. She also tells readers to ask whether a licensed medical director oversees the drips. Ours is Julia Lee, MD, Board-Certified by the American College of Emergency Physicians. The practice is RN owned and operated, and physician supervised by Dr. Lee.
A mobile IV is a wellness visit. It doesn't replace your doctor. When something sounds like a doctor's problem, Lisa says so. We see clients 16 and older, and 16 and 17 year olds need a parent's consent.
Where we come
Flagler Beach has its own city government, apart from the county's. For a visit, though, the county line is the one that counts. There's no travel fee anywhere in Flagler County, so Flagler Beach, Palm Coast, Bunnell and Beverly Beach all get the menu price at the door. Ormond Beach, Daytona Beach and St. Augustine sit outside it, and that travel fee is quoted before you book. The Flagler Beach page lists the neighborhoods and ZIP code we cover in town. All seven towns sit on one list on the locations page.
Quick answers
Is it always Lisa who comes?
Can you come to a vacation rental?
Does insurance pay for it?
Sources
- Cleveland Clinic Health Library: IV Fluids, the patient health library of Cleveland Clinic, an academic medical center.
- Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials: IV Vitamin Therapy: Does It Work?, an article quoting Melissa Young, MD, published by Cleveland Clinic, a non-profit academic medical center.
- Harvard Health Publishing: IV therapy for vitamin replenishment, health boost or expensive placebo?, the consumer health publishing division of Harvard Medical School.
We wrote this as general information about how our visits run. It is not medical advice for your own body, and an infusion at home is not a substitute for medical care from a doctor. Call 911 for an emergency.