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Department highlights EMS advances: whole blood waiver, expanded buprenorphine use and continued federal grant reliance
Summary
The Department of Health described programmatic gains for emergency medical services, including a waiver allowing paramedics to carry whole blood in the field and an executive directive expanding paramedics’ use of buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder; committee members pressed on EMS funding stability amid federal cuts.
Committee members and the Department of Health discussed emergency medical services funding and operational changes that the department said are improving prehospital care.
Deputy and department staff described a waiver that allows paramedics to administer whole blood in the field, and they highlighted an executive directive expanding paramedics’ authority to use buprenorphine to initiate treatment for opioid use disorder. "We have a waiver ... that…
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