The goal is to help clients remain safe and healthy at home, without the need for emergency medical care.

Program Contact for Data: Tina Stamey, Community Paramedic; tina.stamey@burkenc.org

Any resident in Burke County, North Carolina. 

• Care plan follow-up - helping patients understand doctors' orders, prescriptions and their correct usage, and proper use of medical equipment.
• Limited point-of-care testing such as ECGs, blood glucose checks, blood draws, etc.
• Referrals and assistance with in-home health, hospice and palliative care, substance use detox and rehab, mental health management and other outreach programs.
• Home hazards - identifying and reducing health and safety risks and improving home safety by arranging installation of grab bars, smoke alarms, etc.

September 2023 to December 2023 progress:

• Since October of 2023, there have been 39 referrals made  

• 2 ED Diversions made from calls 

• 6 individuals given Mental Health Resources who were seeking or were in need 

• In addition, there have been 5 individuals given Narcan

January 2024 to June 2024 progress:

•  approx 107 different individual referrals on the medical side (some multiple referrals),

• approx 319 calls flagged as overdose/SUD (although a lot of them were not true overdoses or unfounded)

• approx 48 Recovery Resource packets containing mental health resources

• 5 or 6 packets of strictly mental health information

• 12 ED diversions.

June 2024 to January 2025 progress:

•  76 different individual referrals on the medical side (some multiple referrals),

• 200 calls flagged as overdose/SUD (although a lot of them were not true overdoses or unfounded)

• 28 Recovery Resource packets containing mental health resources

• 17 ED diversions.