CHARLOTTESVILLE VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – When UVA Health launched its Community Paramedicine program in 2022, sending medical personal out into the field to help patients who might otherwise have visited the emergency department with non-emergency questions, the program relied on a single sedan.
And while the car got the job done, as the program has grown – and with the goal of being able to reach more and more patients – the community paramedics needed to upgrade their wheels.
“A lot of our patients live in very rural areas, so the sedan isn’t necessarily equipped to carry specific medical equipment or get into you know an area that requires four-wheel-drive or manage a rural area in inclement weather,” Novella Thompson, the hospital administrator…