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.
It is in our healthcare system gaps in coverage where the community paramedic lives and can show their worth
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’s CP program
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 ‘vulnerable adults’ and EMS has an opportunity to connect them to available community resources
The proposed legislation defines “community health” 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’ 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’s 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’ 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
Goal of paramedic house calls, chronic disease monitoring is to reduce 911 calls from frequent users and minimize hospital readmissions
Medicaid program focuses on ‘super-utilizers’ to reduce costs for patients with serious chronic health conditions
The fire department is proposing a “Community Protection Initiative’ where EMTs help frequent 911 callers with medications, health insurance and counseling
Ambulance crews frequently transport patients back to hospital after discharge
Increased economic pressure on hospitals provides the opportunity to reconfigure the role of EMS within an integrated health care system
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