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Buncombe County accepts $500,000 UnitedHealthcare grant to expand community paramedic mobile integrated health pilot
Summary
The Board approved a budget amendment to accept a one-year UnitedHealthcare grant to expand mobile integrated health services, adding two paramedic positions, a part-time role and a vehicle to provide follow-up care, wound care and chronic-disease management in the community.
Claire Hubbard, community paramedic program manager, briefed the board on the county's Community Paramedic Program and a new UnitedHealthcare grant intended to expand mobile integrated health (MIH) services.
Hubbard described current program components'a post-overdose response team, a mobile community outreach team, contracted peer supports and mental-health clinicians'and said staffing is a mix of general-fund and grant-funded positions. She explained gaps identified by the program: the…
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