PARA-AIDD
Welcome to
Paramedic Acute Response Approach for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (PARA-AIDD)!
About PARA-AIDD
- The Paramedic Acute Response Approach for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (PARA-AIDD),is a mobile integrated health (MIH) program funded by MassHealth to manage acute medical events for adults with IDD in the community.
- The program’s mission is to provide high quality care more quickly to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing treatment at home
Who can participate?
You may be eligible if you:
- Are 18 or older.
- Receive services from the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) in a group home setting.
- Have MassHealth insurance.Live in one of these towns: Worcester, Shrewsbury, Boylston, West Boylston, Auburn, Millbury, Holden, Northborough, Westborough, Southboro, Leicester, Rutland, or Grafton.
How it works?
- When a visit is requested via the dispatch hotline, a community paramedic comes to the home within 2 hours, performs mobile diagnostic testing (assessment, labs, imaging), and can start medications.
- Care is supervised in real time by an Emergency Physician to decide on home treatment or ED transfer.
- Requests can be made 24/7 by authorized caregivers/staff/clinicians for eligible adults.
How to call PARA-AIDD?
- Call the PARA-AIDD hotline: (508)- 421-5588.
- A paramedic comes to your home the same day.
- They check how you’re doing and give care.
- A doctor helps them by phone or video
- Your usual doctor gets a report.
Call PARA-AIDD or 911 if:
Support Us
PARA-AIDD is building a new model of urgent care, one that meets adults with disabilities where they are. We bring medical care directly into homes, reducing stress, avoiding unnecessary ER trips, and improving health outcomes for a population too often overlooked.
Your support will help us train paramedics, expand to more communities, and make this kind of care the norm, not the exception.
Together, we can build a safer, smarter system for those who need it most
Contact Us
Email : paraaidd@umassmed.edu