Urbana Hospital teams up with UFD
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Urbana Hospital Emergency Department nurse Cheryl Wears and Emergency Department Medical Director Wade Smith, DO, are working with Urbana Fire and EMS to provide primary and preventive care to patients in their homes.
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SPRINGFIELD – Mercy Health-Urbana Hospital, in close collaboration with Urbana Fire and EMS, launched its Community Paramedicine (CP) program on February 1. The program is funded by a three-year, $225,000 grant the hospitals secured through the Ohio Department of Health’s Community Paramedicine Rural Health Pilot Program last year.
Urbana Hospital Emergency Department nurse Cheryl Wears, RN, BSN, EMT-p, Emergency Department Medical Director Wade Smith, DO, and Urbana Fire and EMS are working together to care for a community of patients who can receive the treatment they need at home instead of at the emergency department.