Community Paramedicine Analysis

Despite the fact that I am just emerging into the medical field and at the beginning stages my career as a firefighter/ paramedic I have had the opportunity to develop personal views on community based paramedicine through research and talking with fellow professionals in this field. I truly see both positive and negative points in community based paramedicine. I feel like after reading these articles and talking with paramedic that work in different parts of the metroplex that I have gained a wide base of ideas and knowledge. I believe that the true essence and function of community paramedicine is truly a good idea, there are certain areas where I believe it would be better financially and population wise than other parts. Let’s take Dallas for example; I think Dallas is a great place …show more content…
If Dallas could get these people signed up for a community based paramedicine program I believe they would see many benefits in cost, treatment, and efficiency in their services and community. In 2013 parkland hospital in Dallas figured there were approximately 7,000 patients who visited there emergency department more than an average of eight times that year accounting for about 50,000 visits that year.(Jacobson) Now not all those people would be eligible for a community paramedicine program but the ones who did would benefit greatly from it. My next though on community based paramedicine is instead of it being funded and run through local fire departments is for the local hospitals to actually have the ability to start and run these kinds of programs. My thought is if the patients are coming to that local hospital then it would just cut out the middle man of going to the patient’s house and running daily, weekly or monthly checks on these patients. To some hospitals it might not be financially possible to start a program like this and might have to be run through the local emergency services.