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Akron commissioners ask council for administrative support to expand Fire Department REACH visits
Summary
Commission on Aging members told the Health & Social Services Committee that Akron’s REACH program — a one-paramedic city effort that helps older residents avoid nursing homes — needs an administrative hire to manage referrals and scheduling and to increase the number of people served.
Karen Herdlika, vice chair of Akron’s Commission on Aging, urged the Health & Social Services Committee to add an administrative staff position to the Akron Fire Department’s REACH program, saying the lone paramedic assigned to the effort spends too much time on scheduling and paperwork and not enough on direct client work.
“If you’re not familiar with the REACH program, it is a small program that the city of Akron fire department has that has huge benefit to the older adults of our community,” Herdlika told the committee. She said REACH provides fall-prevention counseling, installs small safety…
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