Minnesota North Memorial Health System Sends Paramedics On House Calls To Reduce Repeat Emergency Visits

Minnesota North Memorial Health System Sends Paramedics On House Calls To Reduce Repeat Emergency Visits

To reduce repeat emergency department visits, the North Memorial Health System in Minnesota, implemented a program that sends community paramedics to patients' homes. The program focuses on home visits to patients who visited the emergency department nine or more times in the previous year. On December 4, 2013, the health system announced that since the program launch in October 2012, paramedics have made more than 1,200 house calls. A North Memorial spokesperson said that as of the end of December 2013, more than . . .