In rural Virginia, some paramedics are showing up before the emergency. Community paramedicine programs send trained medics to patients' homes to help manage chronic illness, arrange care, and fix problems that keep sending the same people back to the 911 system.
In Pulaski County, patients whose cases had been closed by the program generated 200 EMS calls in the three months before enrolling and 11 in the three months after, according to program director Erika Dalton, as reported by Cardinal News.
