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.
Chief David Lewis and Kyle Gaines join the podcast to discuss a successful MIH initiative getting patients to treatment counselors
Assessing and improving community health with the Healthy People 2030 plan
Pioneering patient management and communication tools may be the answer to enhancing provider job satisfaction and combating EMS retention problems
As EMS will always be the ultimate health care safety net, there are new and expanding opportunities as health care and EMS enter version 3.0
The project is also using local paramedics to fill gaps in the treatment of tuberculosis patients
The grant will help reduce operational strain on EMS resources and improve care for patients with complex medical conditions
Tucson’s pilot program is pulling habitual 911 callers out of the system, here’s how
Principles for the ethical EMS provider
When paramedics are called to care for hospice patients, many times the patients are taken to a hospital, which interrupts the hospice program.
Officials said many patients don’t have access, transportation or knowledge of how to navigate the medical community, and rely on 911 service for non-emergency calls
Specially trained paramedics work with mental health patients by identifying problems, intervening and de-escalating situations
A paramedic and an outreach worker from the Santa Fe Prevention Alliance go to the homes of overdose victims to provide the training and Narcan kits
Our co-hosts discuss the first set of standardized measures to evaluate, benchmark and publicly report the outcomes of EMS-based MIH programs
These tools create the first set of standardized measures to evaluate, benchmark and publicly report the outcomes of EMS-based MIH programs
Take an active role in overcoming the challenges of EMS career so that you can focus on doing what you love
As EMS technology and service models continue to evolve words, phrases or activities will become tradition
The causes of chronic pain and the role of community paramedics in treating it as a disease with a pathophysiological process discussed at EMS World Expo
During the year the program has been in place, paramedics have evaluated 627 patients; more than a quarter were transported to the county’s mental health facility
Preliminary data published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society demonstrates early successes of a N.Y. community paramedicine program
The software will give dispatchers scripted questions to figure out what ails callers and decide which tier of response to provide
More than 6,200 ER visits and over 1,000 ambulance transports have been avoided; there’s also been $9.6 million in savings to patients and the health care system
Lactate may be used to identify a common killer in the prehospital environment
Honolulu EMS reports that half of most frequent callers are homeless
Enable communications personnel to be the brains of the service and recognize their important quasi-supervisory role
With a 9 percent increase in population growth since 2010, there has been a 37 percent increase in 911 call volume since 2008
Some hospitals are embracing the ridesharing app for patients with limited transport options
In this week’s episode, our co-hosts discusses the sometimes complicated relationship between fire departments and EMS
The amendment will allow community paramedicine services to be covered by Medicaid
The AEDs will be distributed in public areas after a near tragic event occurred in the town last year
Progressive programs like community paramedicine and MIH are important steps towards fixing a flawed, inefficient health care system
Many patients use 911 as their primary care because they are unable to afford anything else