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.
Using community paramedicine resources to monitor opioid-addicted patients detoxing at home could relieve the burden on EMS and ERs
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Corewell Health and the Grand Rapids Fire Department will launch a six-month pilot in January embedding a community health worker with EMS responses to redirect low-acuity 911 calls
Santa Monica’s new Advanced Provider Unit pairs a nurse practitioner with a firefighter/paramedic, freeing ambulances for critical emergencies and reducing unnecessary transports
As Cleveland debates Tanisha’s Law, council sponsors are pointing to models in Albuquerque, Allegheny County, Durham and Evanston that dispatch behavioral-health teams
With Station 7 set to come online, Grand Junction is investing in a new community paramedicine program to handle lower-acuity calls
Johnson County’s mobile integrated health program is helping high-risk patients stay safely at home through preventive in-home care
The Thompson Valley senior organized fellow scouts to assemble kits for the Thompson Valley EMS CARES mission to reduce 911 calls
Grand Junction would add three fire department posts for advanced-practice paramedics, redirecting lower-acuity and chronic calls under physician oversight
Single Onslow County paramedics will handle lift assists and minor calls, keeping ambulances free for high-acuity emergencies
The pilot program will serve up to 600 residents in 13 communities, aiming to cut ER visits with on-site assessments, labs, imaging and treatment
Honolulu’s City Council passed a resolution seeking a year-long performance audit of the homeless-response program and the city’s Emergency Services Department to gauge effectiveness, resource use and improvements
Paramedic Peter Canning explains how harm reduction enables people to use safely until they are ready to quit
Paramedic Peter Canning explains addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease, not a character flaw
Paramedic Peter Canning explains how stigma causes people to hide their drug use and avoid treatment
Seattle has cut overdose deaths 20% since 2024 and strengthened its Health 99 post-overdose response team
FDNY EMS officer and union vice president says separating EMS from the FDNY would close pay gaps, curb turnover and give medics the autonomy to modernize patient care
Dorchester County EMS will provide non-emergency care to residents with lower-acuity needs, aiming to reduce 911 calls and ease ER overcrowding
Prisma Health’s community paramedics are leading with compassion and evidence, tackling addiction, rural care gaps and chronic conditions in real time
A new partnership in Joliet embeds paramedics into patient care teams to connect residents with vital resources beyond traditional medical care
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Maine’s MD3 program deploys doctors alongside EMS crews to overdose and emergency calls, expanding field treatment, education and follow-up care across Kennebec County
From post-9/11 to post-COVID, EMS leaders reflect on systemic cracks — and what must happen now to rebuild a future that works for patients and providers
Community paramedicine demands a mindset shift — from crisis mode to continuity of care. Learn how EMS providers can build trust, treat root causes and redefine what success looks like.
Three years in, Flagstaff’s alternative response CARE Unit has decreased ER transports and police involvement in crisis calls
A new initiative embeds social workers with first responders during 911 calls for mental health and substance use crises in Cuyahoga County
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