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Caroline County health department reports 85% drop in 911 calls among MIH enrollees; federal grant to expand service expected July 1
Summary
The county's Mobile Integrated Health program reported early results showing an 85% reduction in 9-1-1 calls among enrolled clients and roughly $20,000 in estimated health-care cost savings during a December'February soft launch; staff said federal Rural Health Transformation funding should let the county expand MIH beginning July 1.
Holly Trace, director of nursing for the Caroline County Health Department, told commissioners on March 24 that a soft launch of the county's Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program produced encouraging early results and that new federal funding will let the county expand the service.
Trace said the MIH partnership, which pairs health-department nursing staff with county emergency services, enrolled 10 new MIH patients and completed 17 MIH visits during the soft launch from December 2025 through February. "We did see 10 new MIH patients during that time period," Trace said, and reported that among enrolled clients the county measured "an 85 percent reduction in 9-1-1 calls after MIH enrollment." She added that…
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