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Mobile Integrated Health Significantly Reduces Opioid-Related Deaths

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One ambulance district’s Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) Division has recently made a big impact in reducing opioid-related overdose deaths in their community by increasing harm-reduction products and therapies. Grant Funding In 2022, the county reported 28 overdose deaths, and in 2023, 27 overdose deaths were reported.

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Unraveling Myths in Mobile Medicine, Part 2: My Interview with Judy Faulkner

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Consider also the self-defeating fantasies that hospitals and healthcare systems do not care about Mobile Medicine; that they don’t care whether fire and ambulance services stay in business; and that prehospital data is seen as extraneous. None of these are true.