What Is the Potential of Community Paramedicine to Fill Rural Healthcare Gaps?

Date
11/2016
Journal
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Description

Community paramedicine (CP) has been promoted as a strategy to help communities achieve the Triple Aim of improving healthcare and population health while lowering costs. This study collected information on rural CP in the U.S. programs to describe their goals, target populations, services offered, connections with local community providers and resources, outcomes measured, and results, where available.

Center
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Authors
Davis Patterson, Cynthia Coulthard, Lisa Garberson, Gary Wingrove, Eric Larson