Mission

Welcome to Responder Care™! We thank you for visiting and we hope you will take some time to look around and see what awesomeness we have created for Responders! 

Being first to establish a Responder-focused Emergency Medical Services (EMS) & Mobile Integrated Healthcare - Community Paramedicine (MIH-CP) capability, we are excited to navigate these uncharted waters. So you may be asking, why would someone create such a program? For us, the pressing question that has kept us up at night was, why not? 

Let me explain...

Responders spend their careers taking care of us (the public) with few options for taking care of their own. Often overlooked, Responders represent a special population disproportionately vulnerable to acute and chronic injuries and illnesses (cancers, depression, etc.), often a result of keeping us safe. We all depend on Responders. And we have high expectations. But if we expect Responders to take good care of us, we must take better care of our Responders!

In December of 2022 we realized we must do more. So, in honor of our beloved colleague and friend Brian R. Hricik who was diagnosed with cancer, we sought to establish a charitable fund and EMS capability that would provide off-duty Responders the opportunity to provide EMS & MIH-CP for fellow Responders, front-line emergency workers, and their families.

In broad strokes, EMS & MIH-CP services would be delivered by a professional EMS cadre (career & volunteer), with medical operations falling under an existing private EMS Agency infrastructure. These services would neither supplant nor compete with existing public emergency 9-1-1 services or private medical resources, but would rather provide enhanced and alternative access to care not otherwise available.

From December 2022 until March 2023, we organized a team of paramedics to provide volunteer EMS & MIH-CP services for Brian, preventing numerous trips to the Emergency Department. Shortly after Brian died in March 2023, Responder Care™ officially launched as an EMERGILITY Special Program, with Fiscal Sponsorship provided by Global Impact, a 501(c)(3). While Brian is no longer with us, we honor him each and every time we care for a Responder.

So here we are. We're here to HELP our Responder community. And you can help too. Come  VOLUNTEER when and where you can, and if able, please DONATE to this awesome charitable endeavor as we continue to help, protect, and care for Responders who give so much to keep us safe and sound!

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Anthony A. Barone, M.P.S., M.P.H., CBCP, NRP, PMP 

Executive Director | Responder Care™