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Fire Department data team pitches community paramedicine expansion after year of analysis
Summary
Lieutenant Nick Oxford presented a year of community-paramedicine data showing rising EMS call volume and opportunities to divert non-emergency calls to alternative resources; the department plans dashboards, academic partnerships and a March reconfiguration of street crisis teams.
Lieutenant Nick Oxford, returning to field duty after a year in community paramedicine, told the Fire Commission that data work has identified patterns that could reduce emergency transports and better match responses to needs.
Oxford said the department's EMS calls increased substantially over two decades and that some high-resource call types — including unresponsive-person calls, overdoses and mental-health…
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