Community Paramedicine
Access our Community Paramedicine directory, offering valuable information on innovative models of care that extend the role of paramedics beyond emergency response. This collection includes articles on preventive care, chronic disease management, and partnerships with healthcare providers to deliver comprehensive care in the community. Understanding community paramedicine is key to improving public health and reducing hospital admissions. For more related content, visit our section on Integrated Care. Stay informed and explore the future of EMS with our resources on community paramedicine.
Esteemed fire chief and EMS lieutenant share lessons learned from community paramedicine program
Our Inside EMS co-hosts welcome Lt. Ken Howell and Firefighter Mackenzie Gross to share about the Lexington Fire Department鈥檚 CP program
In this episode, our co-hosts discuss host Chris Cebollero鈥檚 multi-year effort to create a universal reimbursement program for community paramedicine work
About 30 medics are receiving training to make house calls to chronically ill, frequent 911 callers as part of new community paramedicince program
During this difficult time, a new paradigm has emerged: the mobile care program concept
Through home visits to patients, in about a year the community paramedicine program has helped some go from calling 911 at least twice a month to not at all
Ryan Brothers Ambulance Service is working with local doctors and a Minn. technical college to create a community paramedicine training program in Madison
Mesa Fire鈥檚 Transitional Response Vehicle model allows medics to provide care without transporting to the hospital, or by transporting to an alternative location through local partnerships
Proper assessment, treatment, and transport of patients with severe trauma saves lives, here鈥檚 how
Local partnerships and community support are the keys to success for Lake Havasu City (Ariz.) Fire Department鈥檚 program focusing on reducing patient readmission rates
A proposed bill would allow EMS responders to treat a patient on site and still be reimbursed for their services even if the patient isn鈥檛 transported to a hospital
Responders believe an informational packet with recovery resources, along with a home outreach program, will help addicts recover
Medicare and Medicaid must change reimbursement policies to keep community paramedicine programs from collapsing
The Wake County EMS 6-year-old pilot project saved Medicaid about $500,000 in hospital and related costs during a recent 12-month period
Dr. Brent Meyers to become chief medical officer of Evolution Health, a community paramedic service that makes house calls and provides other preventive medical services
Frequent users are better defined as 鈥榲ulnerable adults鈥� and EMS has an opportunity to connect them to available community resources
The proposed legislation defines 鈥渃ommunity health鈥� services and gives EMS more flexibility when deciding where to transport patients
Since the community paramedicine program started in January, none of the 29 patients involved have called 911
Host Chris Cebollero says his five-year plan for Christian Hospital EMS is to revert back to an all-BLS system
New $9.8 million building three times bigger than old headquarters facility
Incidents in a specific downtown area are sapping responders鈥� resources: officials are exploring alternative ways to address those in need
Nev. medics visits to patients key to increasing health knowledge and better self-treatment of illness
The union argued that the city could not impose such new assignments unilaterally under the union鈥檚 contract
Wake County EMS has been providing mobile integrated healthcare initiatives since January 2009
Patients find comfort in the one-on-one care the community paramedic service provides
Community paramedicine is a way of viewing prehospital providers鈥� roles, and departments that simply jump on the bandwagon will likely struggle
Planned 2015 improvements include more medics for SFFD, better coordination with private EMS, and stationing of public health officials
Volunteer and paid EMTs in a remote area of Texas provide an expanded scope of practice through advanced prolonged critical care transport and community paramedince
The program will include a wide range of community paramedicine services, which will be evaluated by an independent team when it concludes in 2017
The event brought together a broad spectrum of 475 healthcare providers to discuss ways different industries can work together to promote community paramedicine