Community Paramedic (CP)

Community Paramedicine (CP) is a broad and developing model of community-based health care where paramedics use their education and expertise in non-emergent mobile integrated response, to provide immediate or scheduled primary, urgent, and/or specialized healthcare to vulnerable patient populations while focusing on improving equity in healthcare access across the continuum of care. The Community Paramedicine for Long-Term Care (CP-LTC) program has rapidly expanded as a specialized and integral division within Professional Standards to support Middlesex-London Paramedic Service (MLPS) reduce non-essential 911 calls, Emergency Department presentations, and hospital admissions. The CPLTC program is a 24/7/365 non-emergent mobile response team with specialized training designed to work in collaboration with a patient’s primary care providers to deliver a range of community-based primary care services in the comfort of a patient’s home. A core value of CP is to provide additional supports and connections for high risk or vulnerable individuals and support the province’s modernization plan to address systemic barriers in health care. CP provides care to a variety of patient populations through several specializedprograms.