12/08/2025
‘Your hands are tied a lot of times when it comes to the 911 care pathway. You treat and transport or you refuse.’
felt it for years.
10 years in EMS: volunteer fire, urban ground ambulance, rural critical access hospitals, eventually becoming EMS Chief. And she kept hitting the same wall: paramedicine is siloed.
Then she discovered Mobile Integrated Health.
‘At that point it was pretty new, pretty progressive. There wasn’t a whole lot of people doing it.’
So she drafted a proposal. Waited for the right moment. And when she moved to a rural critical access hospital in Iowa, she pitched it to hospital administration.
‘They hooked on. They loved the idea. It kind of came at the perfect time for them when they realized that they were going to have a lot more responsibility for taking care of patients the full care continuum.’
High-risk readmissions. High ER utilizers. The hospital was facing penalties if they couldn’t keep these patients healthy.
MIH became the solution.
‘We went into program development for six months and then we’ve been going full board since then and it’s more or less proved value and worth tenfold.’
Follow - she’s challenging norms, elevating care, and showing what’s possible when paramedicine meets purpose.
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