Franklin Cardiovascular Associates, Pa :Nicholas L. Depace MD

Found Dr Depace of all places.. Facebook. The wait time is quite long but worth every minute. Dr Depace and staff are the most caring and pleasant friendly people. Dr Depace truly cares about you. He is so knowledgeable about EDS. Has helped my daughter tremendously. Will continue to drive an hr to and from as long as he able to help her. Thank you Dr and staff

Though Dr Depace is very knowledgeable on POTS HEDS AND MCAS, it's impossible to reach the office after your visit! Also to wait at the office for 6 1/2 hours for only an echocardiogram, EKG and standing test is ridiculous. They didn't even do my test the first day!! They asked me to pay $250 upon getting there and then bill me for another $500, not even mentioning that I already paid 250. He prescribed four new prescriptions for me and the pharmacist could not read any of them. The pharmacy tried to reach Dr. Depay's office multiple times along with myself So that I could get the medications filled, But Depace's office never called anyone back. So I was unable to get those meds filled through him! I already had a diagnosis of Pots going into this initial visit. If you're already diagnosed with Pots, I don't think it's important to see Dr. Depace. Dr. Martin Dawson In Mullica Hill, New Jersey is managing my medication's and his office is amazing with returning phone calls and following up on short-term disability paperwork I was thrilled with Dr. Depace during our visit, (of which I only saw him for maybe 10 minutes out of the 6 1/2 hours )but afterwards I feel as if the office is prescribing medications that they don't follow up with the patient on and it's unsafe practice The office is extremely overstimulating as well!! Anyone with Dysautonomia knows that we are sensitive to lights and sounds. There's way too much going on in that office for it to feel like a comfortable safe environment for its patient that was extremely symptomatic the whole time while waiting

I am torn between rating this office with a 1 or a 5. On one hand, Dr. Depace himself is an excellent physician who diagnosed me when nobody else could. His treatment plan has been life-changing for me. I also like the general set-up of the clinic with specialized testing available on-site and performed on the day of the appointment. On the other hand, the office is so disorganized and understaffed and overbooked! Each appointment requires a 3-4 HOUR wait beyond the actual appointment start time to finally get seen. This can make it inaccessible for patients with ME/CFS. The waiting room is not at all tailored towards POTS patients either, with not a single foot rest or reclining chair. There is no shortage of funds for decoration though; just look at images of the waiting room online! It makes you wonder about the priorities of this clinic. Worst of all though is that when I need any of my prescriptions renewed, it takes so long (weeks!) that I often have to go without my medications. Sometimes I can get a relative to visit the office in person, and then it's suddenly fixed right away. I think part of the issue is that patient records are not digitized, which adds physical labor of searching through disorganized papers to every single task. With the sheer volume of patients, I have no clue why they don't utilize a patient portal software like Epic. I think that would streamline everything! All in all, I feel forced to keep going here because there are so few physicians knowledge or willing to treat POTS patients. I'm grateful for the medications in my treatment plan, but they have been a beast to obtain and maintain!

Wonderful doctors, but the waiting, for Dr Depace, I understand, he's great, however this visit was disappointing, we sat there for 3 hours waiting to be seem by Dr Depace but end up being seem by the pa-c instead. I had heard earlier from conversation from the front desk that the doctor was leaving early, but was not told I would not be able to see him. They need to hire a receptionist for the front desk, the young lady that was there was busy and the sign-in sheet was on her side, took a few minutes before she looked up, and when she did said nothing, gave me the pad to sign-in, I stood there a few minutes, she said nothing. The front desk is not professional at all. I've been going here for about 10 years or more. I'm disappointed there is not enought seats in the waiting room because of the large tomb, its something to see but not the place for it

Save your money and find a different Dr, there's others in our area for dysautonomia. He majorly overbooks appointments so you will be there for HOURS, the office is covered in his art collections showing off his wealth yet you'll be charged hundreds of dollars for testing done on very old equipment. You get about 5 minutes with the actual Dr who has his phone ringing off the hook at full volume taking those calls while flipping through your paperwork and asking you questions, it's loud it's rushed it's chaotic. He'll put you on his special cocktail of meds that don't actually heal you and in fact can make you worse bc it's the same meds for everyone. I have hyperadrenergic POTS and he wanted to put me on meds to make my adrenals more active and raise my BP, that would have harmed me if I listened to him. I said I didn't want a bunch of meds to mask my symptoms but to truly heal and he dismissed me saying I was too severe to heal and needed pharmaceutical intervention then told me I was going to feel worse before getting better with these meds but to take them and come back in 8 weeks. I did my research and found the meds he prescribed clearly warn not to be taken together. I managed using diet, appropriate supplements, compression garments, electrolytes and only took his suggestion of antihistamines for MCAS. They never reply when you reach out with questions, the test I was charged for was not the test they initially said is out of pocket so there's more out of pocket expenses than you're first told about, the staff is friendly that I worked with but some of them were standing behind the front desk chatting and goofing around while one poor lady was frantically trying to manage checking out all the patients swarmed around the desk. Overall I do appreciate having my diagnoses confirmed but the dismissiveness, the one size fits all medical cocktail, the flaunting his wealth all over the office while charging hundreds for tests on old machines to ppl who are mostly disabled by their conditions and overbooking making patients in a delicate state wait for hours and hours (I was first of the day and I was there 4 hours, 2 of my friends went to him and they were stuck for 8 hours before even seeing the dr) is enough for me to not recommend him and say proceed with caution or find another dr who treats dysautonomia. Don't listen to anyone who claims your only hope is a bunch of meds that shouldn't even be taken together and will make you worse by further crashing your system to create a new dependent baseline that's not only dangerous but unethical as it's creating lifelong patients not healing