March 16, 2017 – 9 am to noon.

Lawrence T. Bennett, Esq., Cell 513-470-2744

 

1/3/2017

COMMUNITY PARAMEDIC

Colerain Township’s “QUICK RESPONSE TEAM” (QRT) - CALLING ON OVERDOSE PATIENTS

Can we do this throughout Hamilton County?

March 16, 2017

9 am – noon

Colerain Township: 4200 Springdale Road, Colerain Township, Ohio 45251

 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  BILL SEITZ, Esq.  – Ohio State Rep.: Ohio Community Paramedicine statute

 

OPEN TO PUBLIC / PRESS

Host: Assistant Fire Chief Will Mueller

 

In 2015, Colerain Township Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services (Colerain Fire and EMS) launched a unique three-pronged, social services-based Community Paramedicine Program (CPP). The opiate follow-up response is a program designed to assist in getting addicted persons connected to recovery resources necessary to combat their disease.  A Colerain Township Police Officer, a Colerain Township Community Paramedic, and an addiction services counselor conduct follow-up visits to those victims who are involved in an overdose situation. As of February, 29, 2016: 109 follow ups were made to overdose patients with 79 percent in recovery. http://www.watchusthrive.org/colerain.aspx

• Randy Jones - Community Paramedic, Whitehall FD – Project Hope
• Jim Davis – Assistant Fire Chief, Columbus FD – new research project

11 am: Panel Discussion – Hamilton County Resources For Drug Addiction / County-Wide QRT Team?

 

Lawrence Bennett, Esq. – PANEL CHAIR

• Carol Baden – Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Community Outreach Specialist
• Nan Franks – CEO, Alcoholism Council of the Cincinnati Area
• Mary Haag - President & CEO, PreventionFIRST
• Sandra L. Kuehn - President and CEO, Center For Addiction Treatment
• Fire Chief Rob Leininger -Springfield Township FD; President, Hamilton County Fire Chiefs Association
• Sheriff Jim Neil, Hamilton County Sheriff

 

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http://ceas.uc.edu/content/dam/aero/docs/fire/CP%20Residency.pdf

 

Fire Chief John Center

City of Monroe, OH

 

The Monroe Fire Department initiated the State of Ohio’s first Community Paramedicine program in December of 2015. The trial program was a designed partnership between the fire department and the Mount Pleasant Retirement Village located in the City of Monroe. With the support of Council, the City Manager, Staff, and the MPRV Executive Director, the department was able to establish the program on campus, working with home health, Senior Independence, and administrative staff. To date, staff have logged over 80 visits on campus, with plans to roll-out the program citywide in 2017. In 2016, the Monroe Fire Department was awarded the regions first AFG SAFER grant in support of 1 full-time Community Paramedic and 6 additional personnel in operations.

 

Fire Chief John Donahue, City of Delaware, OH

 

The Delaware Fire Department is working with SourcePoint to provide a Part-time Social Worker/Service Coordinator to follow-up with patients over the age of 55. The Service Coordinators meets with the patients to identify needed services to patients that frequently rely on the Fire Department for assistance with non-emergency issues. Services including educational programs, home delivered meals, emergency alert systems, medication dispensers, durable medical equipment, incontinence products and in home services. In 2017, plans are being developed to expand these services to all patients within the City of Delaware.

 

EMS Division Chief Paul Miller

Crawfordsville FD, Indiana

 

 

The Crawfordsville Fire Department is the sponsored pilot program for the Indiana State Department of health and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Mobile Integrated Health-Community Paramedicine. 

The CDC’s assignee to the state will present program finding to CMS in 2017 for reimbursement. The Fire Departments MIH-CP’s developed a unique Heart failure readmission reduction plan based on the community’s needs assessments. By the end of 2017 our program will be adding the following programs; 30 day follow-up visits for newborns and Medicare Wellness screening.

 

Lt. / Community Paramedic JD Postage, Violet Township Fire Department, OH

 

            “I have seen 50 patients to date. I receive referrals from the FD, hospital, Food Pantry, Senior Living Facilities, Neighbors, Home Health Nurses, and New Horizons Mental Health Counseling.               We perform home safety assessments, we link patients with different community resources, we               perform point-of-care testing, and we perform medical assessments. We are currently working a         mental health diversion program, and Heroin Overdose follow-up program. We will be                 collaborating with local law enforcement for the Heroin Overdose Program. I will have a social      worker riding with me during our mental diversion and overdose follow-up. The program is still            a couple months from being launched.”

 

 

Randy Jones – Community Paramedic, Whitehall Fire Department, OH

 

“We, like all communities in Ohio, have seen a dramatic increase in narcotic overdoses.  Our community paramedics have an opportunity to participate in the Franklin County Sheriff’s Project HOPE (Heroin Overdose Prevention & Education).  The community paramedic coupled with a drug & rehab counselor and deputy sheriff make follow-up visits to patients who recently overdosed.  They offer non-punitive referral into a drug rehabilitation program.”