Mobile Integrated healthcare or Community Paramedicine has evolved into many facets of healthcare and the San Antonio Fire Department has been innovating new service lines to meet the needs of our community. WE have contracted with numerous Hospice agencies in order to maximize care and prevent hospice revocation when family calls 911. WE have partnered with a Medicare/Medicaid insurance company to decrease EMS/ER utilization that improves access to care, provides streamlined delivery of services and improves patient satisfaction. WE also started a paramedic run Homeless shelter clinic, provide Opiod harm reduction and psychiatric patient case management. These service lines will be discussed and we will provide suggestions for implementation.
Learning Objectives:
the scope of service that Community Paramedics can provide will be discussed with specific examples of service lines that can be implemented.
The fundamentals of Hospice symptom management will be discussed along with pharmacology protocols, comfort measures and case management principles.
The methods and interventions necessary to assist patients who may be High Volume Utilizers of healthcare/EMS will be discussed at lenght with some case studies as examples.