EMS in St. Charles County, Mo. While St. Charles county boasts the highest median household income in the state, unemployment is well below the national average and several municipalities have been named Money magazine's "Best Places to Live," opioid abuse has steadily increased.
It grew steadily over the next six years, spiked 40 percent in , and last year increased further to ," said paramedic Lisa Cassidy, the driving force behind St. Cassidy and colleagues began talking in about how the district may be able to inform residents just how serious the issue had become. The initiative has since evolved into a robust, multi-pronged effort aimed not only at awareness, but intervention for those struggling with addiction. With Dave Lewis, SCCAD assistant chief, Cassidy developed a system of follow-up for substance, opioid and heroin overdose patients revived by the district.
For EMS providers, overdose calls can be extremely frustrating. Unappreciative patients, complicated bystander dynamics and a host of other less-than-ideal variables may present themselves on calls of this nature. Often, patients do not want to go to the hospital, leaving paramedics in the difficult position of obtaining a refusal from someone whom they know may use again.
Regardless of whether those successfully resuscitated agree to go to the emergency department, they are rarely linked with treatment resources in their community. The pair worked closely to secure agreements with in-patient and out-patient treatment partners Preferred Family Healthcare, Center Pointe Hospital, Crider Center and Bridgeway Counseling. Louis city and county. Over the past decade, SCCAD has developed and implemented a number of innovative initiatives to better meet the evolving healthcare needs of our community.
These include a multi-faceted Mobile Integrated Health community paramedic program, which focuses on readmission avoidance in partnership with several hospitals in our area, and SCCAD high-utilization patients identified by our paramedics. In addition, the MIH team collaborates with commercial insurers to offer services to their patients in the county.
In , the District launched a successful behavioral health telemedicine program in partnership with Behavioral Health Response. From the onset, SCCAD embraced the challenge, working to develop strategies that would meet the needs of our employees, fellow first responders, and the community at large. To this end, our leadership team has worked in tandem with the St. Charles County Department of Public Health. Meanwhile, our Deputy Chief Medical Officer worked tirelessly to develop aggressive contract tracing and quarantine procedures to ensure the safety of our team members, and worked to regularly push updated information out to crews.
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