 Ascension Health and Brainerd is now extending some of their services to the patient's home. Julie Jensen has been hired as a community paramedic and visits patients at their homes to reduce health care costs and to prevent unnecessary visits to the hospital. As a community paramedic, Jensen can perform home safety evaluations, monitor a person's vitals, can help manage chronic diseases and do much more. Having that extra person to kind of touch base with, ask questions, make gives them that sense of security. It has been very welcomed. We've been welcomed into patients' homes and things. It just gives them that sense of security that they have just somebody else who will listen to them and can maybe help communicate their concerns to their physicians. To schedule a visit with a community paramedic in the Brainerd area, you are encouraged to talk with your health care provider.