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Community paramedics highlight MAT access, new $700,000 UnitedHealthcare grant and ARPA funding cliff
Summary
Justin Hall told commissioners Buncombe County’s community paramedic team provides 24/7 overdose response, expanded MAT inductions and wound care, and will launch a $700,000, two‑year UnitedHealthcare mobile integrated health initiative on July 1; ARPA funding that supports outreach expires December 2026.
Justin Hall, program supervisor for Buncombe County’s community paramedic team, updated commissioners on services the county launched in 2020 and on a new UnitedHealthcare grant that will fund a two‑year mobile integrated health initiative.
Hall said the county’s team provides 24/7 overdose response, immediate buprenorphine (Suboxone) induction after overdose, wound care in the field, peer‑support case management (contracted through Umoja) and proactive outreach to housed and unhoused populations. “Our entire community paramedic team is a mix of general funds and opioid settlement funds,” Hall said, describing the program’s funding mix and the separate post‑overdose peer support team funded by opioid settlement dollars.
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