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Fire Department outlines expansion of community paramedicine teams and shelter coordination
Summary
ADC Simon Pang told the commission the department will expand community paramedic programs (street crisis, street overdose, street wellness and EMS 6), pilot a street wellness team in the Tenderloin daily, and aims to implement four additional teams by late June with training cohorts starting in April.
Simon Pang, assistant deputy chief for community paramedicine, updated the Fire Commission on March 9 about the department's community paramedicine programs and plans to expand services.
Pang said the department now runs four specialized community-paramedic programs: EMS 6 (high-frequency 911 users), street crisis response, street overdose response, and street wellness response. He described "on-views" (instances when teams…
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