MS NOW rode along with a home-care paramedic team for a look at programs meant to make up gaps in rural healthcare.
MS NOW rode along with a home-care paramedic team for a look at programs meant to make up gaps in rural healthcare.
Jun. 17, 2026, 6:52 AM EDT
By Rosa Flores, Sara Weisfeldt and
Cameron Brock
Regina Young’s chronic fatigue and anxiety had escalated to debilitating exhaustion, then a panic disorder that had her trapped in her home, unable to care for or even feed herself, when there was a knock on the door.
It was the first visit from paramedic Keith Grayson, part of a Medicaid-funded program that Young believes saved her life. The at-home care from Phelps Health in tiny Rolla, Missouri, about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis, is the kind of program meant to make up for longstanding shortfalls in rural healthcare.
