Community Paramedicine
The community paramedicine topic features articles, columns, training, podcasts and videos about the future of EMS by developing community paramedicine, or integrated mobile healthcare, programs for EMS personnel.
Matt Zavadsky, MS-HA, EMT, details the impact of integrating a 211 system into the 911 process and the benefits to the community
Taking the concept of the right care, to the right person at the right resource to a new level
How Mehlville Fire Protection District used ET3 and community paramedicine to improve overall health and quality of life for the community
Organizers have seen a decrease in unplanned emergency department, hospital visits in the first year
The Office of Community Health and Safety mental responds to behavioral health crises, overdose incidents and homelessness
Missoula’s Mobile Support Team replaces the tradition police response to mental health, substance abuse calls
Chief David Lewis and Kyle Gaines join the podcast to discuss a successful MIH initiative getting patients to treatment counselors
State health officials say the street medicine program reaches some of the state’s sickest and most vulnerable people
Delaware County officials look at a pilot program using mental health professionals, certified peer specialists as a fourth emergency service
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
Approximately 1,000 patients have been seen at DocGo clinics outside Dollar General stores since the service started last fall
The Community Assisted Response and Engagement (CARE) department will send civilian responders to calls that do not warrant a police or fire response
The pilot program that launched Health 99 has seen patients overdosing multiple times due to a lack of treatment options
Funding for six new personnel will allow the Naperville Fire Department to expand the Community Advocate Response Team program
Oakland County communities use trained mental health specialists to provide assistance to EMS, law enforcement
An expansion of Medi-Cal funding has helped Clinica Sierra Vista deliver medical care to the homeless population
Initiatives using clinicians and EMTs or paramedics to respond to nonviolent mental health crises are gowing
The graduate degree position in clinical paramedicine is meant to alleviate recruitment and retention losses
Dr. Linda Dykes and Rom Duckworth discuss trans-Atlantic lessons in emergency management
The St. Tammany Fire Protection District pilot program will use a behavioral health center specialist for crisis calls
New Haven’s Elm City Compass supports the work of first responders by sending social workers and people with lived experience to 911 calls
3,100 paramedics weigh in on reducing stress, staffing challenges and leadership shortfalls
City officials released new financial projections and possible spending to improve response times
Portland’s Community Health Assess and Treat program was on the verge of having its funding diverted to the FD
From house calls to heartfelt care: Inside the evolution of a Texas county’s community paramedicine program
Kingston Fire Chief Chris Rea said service pairs an EMT with a mental health specialist to respond to mental health emergencies
Dispatchers in Worcester will determine which calls Community Healthlink teams will be sent to
Mobile Integrated Health in Clark County will focus on reducing non-emergency 911 calls and providing resources for the medically-vulnerable population
Mental Health Services for Clark and Madison Counties is working with firefighters, police officers to get ahead of crises and reduce suicides
Wapello County officials look at supervisors, property tax levy and community paramedicine to fix EMS struggles
For the last two years, the Portland Street Response sent mental health workers and EMTs instead of police to people experiencing a mental health emergency
Monadnock’s Mobile Integrated Healthcare program started in response to the pandemic and is the busiest in the state
