Community Paramedicine
The EHS Community Paramedicine Project is an innovative and successful model of primary health care delivery and has been well received by the residents of Long and Brier Islands. This geographically challenged community now has access to quality primary health care services through the utilization of Paramedics and a Nurse Practitioner who provide primary health care in collaboration with an off-site physician.
Based on an “expanded scope of practice” and utilizing the excess capacity between calls, the paramedics in Long and Brier work in collaboration with the Nurse Practitioner, VON and Home Care agencies in a variety of patient-centered interventions.
In the Long and Brier Islands program, patients are privy to enhanced levels of:
- health promotion;
- early detection;
- screening and
- disease management.