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.
Inside Health 34 – UC Davis Fire’s mobile approach to non-emergent support and service navigation
An inside look at Guilford County’s award-winning program response to low-acuity and behavioral health calls
Making care more accessible, reducing hospital utilization and improving outcomes
Using community paramedicine resources to monitor opioid-addicted patients detoxing at home could relieve the burden on EMS and ERs
Learn how you can quickly assess and treat patients with sepsis as an EMS provider
Community Howard paramedics will visit discharged patients with chronic heart diseases with the goal of positively impacting the patient’s transition
“Be Like Brendon Week” honors Brendon Cousino by encouraging the public to perform simple acts of kindness
Officials said the paramedicine program will test how follow up from a paramedic will improve the health outcomes of hospital patients once they return home
The Advanced Provider Response Unit program provides direct care to patients who may not need immediate transportation to the emergency room
Three individuals were named 2018 Hooley Awards winners at the 10th annual ImageTrend Connect Conference on July 19
The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester’s Mobile Crisis Response Team helps people with mental health issues stay out of “emergency rooms, hospitalization and jail”
Free Voice Media, a nonprofit documentary company, is working on a new project called Frequent Caller
Ben Thompson discusses what he has learned about compassion and helping others through community paramedicine
Sharing data across EMS agencies is one of the most effective ways to combat the opioid crisis in communities
Onslow County EMS’s community paramedicine program was recognized by the National Association of Counties for working with frequent callers to address their issues
Innovative community paramedicine programs may offer a strategy to evolve EMS response from resuscitation to a recovery-oriented system of care
Starting in mid-June, a New Orleanian who needs a doctor but doesn’t have an emergency will be able to call the Ready Responders rather than an ambulance
The hospital sees a paramedicine program as a way to cut down hospital readmissions, which are reimbursed at a lower rate by Medicare and Medicaid
Rideshare services are offering same day service, 24/7 availability and provider billing
Julie Lahr, who has been in EMS for 16 years, said she started thinking outside the box after realizing the impact community paramedics and mental health specialists could make in the field
Tucson Collaborative Community Care aims to decrease transports for people with chronic issues by sending a crew of two firefighters, a paramedic and a social worker
The Rapid City Fire Department now deploys one paramedic in an SUV to calls that are not as urgent so that an ambulance unit is kept available
Last year, the city spent nearly $500,000 to staff a 12th ambulance because of a steep increase in the number of people dialing 911
AFD Capt. Emily Jaramillo said Community EMS Care program will allow paramedics and EMTs to respond in more expanded roles to under-served communities
About a dozen paramedics in Ottawa have begun treating elderly flu patients at the nursing home to prevent trips to the hospital
EMS can be a major player in clinical medicine, operational delivery and healthcare changes, decreasing morbidity and mortality
Kai Hjermstad was treated by first responders he had trained himself after collapsing in his garage
EMS sleep practices, the opioid epidemic, community paramedicine and patient transport mark some of the biggest issues to watch in 2018
Community paramedicine, patient transport, EMS safety, the opioid epidemic and professionalism shape the last year in EMS
Every EMS agency adopts innovations at a different pace; how has yours deployed community paramedicine?
Chief Porter R. Welch shares factors to consider before and while implementing a MIH-CP program