Acting chief of Hastings-Quinte Emergency Services John O’Donnell with local ambulance, June 2015. (Photo: Mary Thomas/Quinte News)
Local officials are working to extend the pilot paramedicine house-call program in the Quinte area and are looking to the Ontario government to help out.
The federal funding for the Hastings-Quinte paramedicine program, which helps people with health issues stay in their own homes, ran out at the end of March but the province has extended its funding.
Acting chief of emergency services John O’Donnell says he is meeting with some provincial officials to see if there is money for a rural program here.
Meanwhile a study is underway, including Quinte Health Care hospital statistics, to determine what financial savings there were in the one-year pilot paramedicine project in Belleville and Quinte West.
