{"id":401633,"date":"2026-07-17T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401633\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:56:11","slug":"new-pilot-san-jose-paramedicine-team-aims-to-steer-patients-away-from-emergency-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401633\/","title":{"rendered":"New pilot San Jose paramedicine team aims to steer patients away from emergency room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">THE SAN JOSE FIRE DEPARTMENT is rethinking how it responds to emergency medical calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under a new pilot program, greenlit by the City Council as part of the recently completed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-joses-budget-lands-with-wins-losses-work-to-do\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annual budget process<\/a>, the city is preparing to launch a \u201ccommunity paramedicine\u201d team of firefighter paramedics trained to help patients with complex needs that can\u2019t be fixed with a trip to the emergency room.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE SAN JOSE FIRE DEPARTMENT is rethinking how it responds to emergency medical calls. Under a new pilot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[72702,631,1902,2093,161164,161165,161166,161167,88,16912,90,89,881,198,14591],"class_list":["post-401633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-emergency-medical-services","tag-emergency-response","tag-healthcare","tag-mental-health","tag-national-alliance-on-mental-illness-santa-clara-county","tag-paramedicine","tag-robert-sapien","tag-rovina-nimbalkar","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-fire-department","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-spotlight","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-substance-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}