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Paramedics Step Beyond the Ambulance to Keep Seniors Safe at Home
Community Paramedicine History in Winnipeg
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The Guelph-Wellington community paramedicine program started as a pilot project in 2014 and has since received permanent provincial funding, expanding to become a province-wide initiative.
Specially trained paramedics provide in-home, non-emergency care for people with chronic conditions like congestive heart failure, diabetes, and COPD, serving as the eyes and ears of the family doctor.
Patients can borrow monitoring equipment such as scales, blood pressure cuffs, and blood oxygen sensors, with paramedics tracking data remotely and intervening if something looks concerning.
The program's core goal is to catch a worsening illness before it requires a hospital visit, reducing unnecessary emergency room use and delaying or preventing moves to long-term care.
About 650 people in Guelph and Wellington County are currently enrolled, mostly seniors, with referrals accepted from hospitals, doctors, and family health teams, as well as self-referrals.
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Community Paramedicine History in Winnipeg
Region of the week: Sleepy Hollow, NY
Northwell's Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow is expanding its community paramedicine program to include street medicine outreach for unhoused individuals and in-home behavioral health services, targeting Westchester's roughly 1,659 unhoused households.
The program, launched in 2024 in partnership with Ossining Volunteer Ambulance Corps (OVAC), trains paramedics to provide clinical assessments and treatments in patients' homes under physician oversight, originally serving underserved populations and homebound seniors.
In its first year, the program prevented 454 unnecessary emergency department visits and cut hospital readmissions by 34% for enrolled patients.
To sustain and grow the initiative, Phelps has raised over $400,000 — more than 60% from individual donors — including a $150,000 grant from the Phelps Community Foundation.
Beyond patient care, the model benefits paramedics themselves by allowing them to practice at the full extent of their license, build lasting patient relationships, and advance their careers beyond traditional emergency response.