Benefits and Goals

Benefits of the Community Paramedicine Program include...

  • Established focused care beyond the acute setting
  • Assistance in navigating community resources
  • Improvement in safety, knowledge, health and wellness
  • Reducing unnecessary strains on emergency services, personnel, and improve 9-1-1 emergency readiness
  • Reducing healthcare spending, hospital delays, and prevent unnecessary hospital re-admissions

A Sense of Community

  • Strengthens a collaborative bond within the community, it’s services, and providers
  • Enhances the wellness of the community creating opportunities which may not have been previously achievable
  • Enhances the wellness of the community creating opportunities which may not have been previously achievable

Steps to a successful transition

  • Referred and voluntary program acceptance
  • Community Paramedic visiting your home
  • Identifying needs and development plan
  • Getting connected to resouced
  • Follow-up visits/ routine re-assessments
  • Self-management/understanding of goals
  • Program release