The community paramedicine program provides high-level care for elderly patients in 99 remote and rural communities throughout the province.
Life on the frontier in British Columbia is fantastic so long as you’re healthy. Get injured or worse suffer from a chronic condition and up until now, health care was usually a sirens-blaring ambulance trip to a hospital more than 100 km away.
It was a problem – a big problem – for many reasons. Then one day, a solution emerged: members of the ambulance and paramedics union came up with a way of creating sustainable employment of ambulance paramedics in remote communities and at the same time dramatically improving the well-being of the people they served.
The community paramedicine program came to life and now provides high-level care for elderly patients in 99 remote and rural communities throughout the province. The benefits include, but are not limited to: aging in place for seniors, keeping families united, improving health outcomes and giving rural paramedics a more stable job.We invited Nancy Kotani, B.C.
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