What is it about?
The San Francisco Fire Department's Homeless Outreach and Medical Emergency (HOME) Team was the nation's first effort to have a specially trained paramedic intervene with frequent callers to emergency services with the goal of redirecting them into other types of care such as substance abuse treatment, primary care and mental health services. This highly successful effort lay the groundwork for what is now called community paramedicine.
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Why is it important?
This article represents one of the first scientific examinations of community paramedicine and underscores the incredible potential that specially trained paramedics can have on the healthcare system.
Perspectives
I feel this work offered scientific validation to years of work developing and implementing the HOME Team program for the San Francisco Fire Department. Additionally, it is exciting to offer a glimpse into the success of the program that laid the groundwork for the growing community paramedicine movement.
Captain Niels Tangherlini
San Francisco Fire Department
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This page is a summary of: The HOME Team: Evaluating the Effect of an EMS-based Outreach Team to Decrease the Frequency of 911 Use Among High Utilizers of EMS, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, September 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x16000790.
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