Improving the ED‐to‐Home Transition: The Community Paramedic–Delivered Care Transitions Intervention—Preliminary Findings

Background/Objective Older adults frequently use the emergency department (ED) for care, but the ED-to-home transition often goes poorly, with up to 20% experiencing adverse outcomes, including return to the ED for further care. We describe a novel model of care that uses community-based paramedics to deliver a modified version of the evidence-based hospital-to-home Care Transitions Intervention (CTI) to a new context: the ED-to-home transition.