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.
If you’ve seen one community paramedicine program, then you’ve seen one program; here’s how successes from four different programs can be translated to new ones
The state-of-the industry survey focuses on wellness, career development and satisfaction in EMS
Have EMS operations failed to keep up with the growing complexity demanded by the communities we serve?
Research offers solutions to EMS providers’ hesitation regarding additional duties, hours and changing perception CP programs may bring
Our co-hosts talk about an opioid panel discussion, sponsored by EMS1 and BoundTree, at EMS World Expo 2017
Matt Zavadsky discusses mobile integrated healthcare program growth, sustainability and models for the future
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The goal is to help those who struggle with substance abuse link up with medicated assisted treatment, counseling and regular health checks
Mayor Joe Hogsett is teaming up with police, EMS and Eskenazi Health to launch the city’s first Mobile Crisis Assistance Team
As the health care and public safety landscapes continue to evolve, the three agencies saw an opportunity to combine resources
EMS providers are asked to help evaluate community risk reduction
Community paramedicine programs are being integrated into our health care system far too slowly to meet the needs of many underserved populations
Community paramedics placed within a correctional facility increase the level of services provided by the health care team and potentially reduce overall health care costs
The program is focused on improving the lives of patients, lowering healthcare costs and using EMS providers as resources to solve healthcare problems
There was an almost 62 percent drop in emergency room visits and a 63 percent decrease in ambulance use by frequent flyers
Officials said the project is improving patient care and reducing unnecessary ER visits
Here are five research pearls from Cathy Hostettler, DNP after she studied MedStar’s Heart Failure Readmission Avoidance Program
Awareness of FirstNet’s interconnected broadband network for securing and improving public safety communication is increasing among EMS leaders
Individuals enrolled in the MIH program receive home visits from paramedics over a four-week period
Ready Responders swept the competition at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, winning $55,000 in prizes
The study is the first independent evaluation of California’s 13 paramedicine pilot projects
The bill would establish a set of statewide standards for EMS providers to follow while administering care
The pilot project will help residents solve the larger, underlying problems in their lives — such as substance abuse or home hazards
A mobile stroke unit offers specially trained personnel and equipment which can provide remote diagnosis and evidence-based management to patients for definitive treatment
EMS providers make home visits within one week of overdoses, provide assistance to addicts and their families and try to link them to services
EMS providers will be able to email photos or videos to hospital officials before arriving
Handheld, portable blood analyzers used by community paramedics to assess heart failure patients and make prehospital care decisions
EMS providers can “Identify-Report-Refer” to help improve a patient’s health through strengthening the patient’s social connections
Community paramedics have an opportunity to change EMS response to overdose and addiction through application of harm reduction techniques
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