Alameda Paramedics To Provide Post-Hospital Care to Patients Under Pilot Program
The Alameda Fire Department will participate in a statewide pilot program that will allow paramedics to provide post-acute care to patients with chronic illnesses to help stem readmissions and trips to the hospital. Under the program, which will launch in June at more than a dozen agencies across the state, certain patients will have access specially trained paramedics for 30 days after their hospital release.
- "Alameda Paramedicine Pilot Set To Launch" (Ellson, The Alamedan, 4/7).