Kimberlyn Tihen has been a paramedic with St. Charles County Ambulance District for 30 years. She has been a part of the Community Paramedic medic program since its inception. Her current role is Battalion Chief of the division and oversees the day to day operations.
Collaborative Panel Discussion on Innovative Models in both rural and suburban settings discussing lessons learned
Mrs. Kimberlyn Tihen1, Mr. John Romeo, Mr. James McLaughlin
1St. Charles County Ambulance District, St. Peter’s, United States, 2UTE Regional Health Service, Woodland Park, united states
Abstract
This is a collaborative panel discussion on innovative models to connect with patients in our community. The St.Charles County Ambulance District CP model is a 24/7 resource unit. We will discuss our grant recieved to treat SUD/OUD with MAT in the field. How this led to problem solving for our 911 crews with high utilizers of the system and obtained their buy-in for this approach. We will do a 5 minute case study of lessons learned. The UTE Pass Regional Health District will talk about their role as the sole mobile crisis provider for nearly 3000 square miles. We will look at the role collaboration, prevention, and stigma reduction activities play in providing community wide crisis services. No wrong door approach to seeking support and services and challenges that come with adding a new provider type(s) to your CP/MIG team. We will reflect on the data related to both 24 hour and 5 day follow ups for persons in crisis. The two agencies will be comparing country and city perspective and show the audience the similarities in the programs, while having a better chance to explore the diverse challenges and opportunities found in each. One of the goals of the talk is no program is perfect and the only way to truly grow a program is to go out and start one then learn from your mistakes.