Livingston Fire & Rescue-Community Paramedic Program

BRINGING BETTER HEALTHCARE TO YOU

Livingston Fire and Rescue Service is proud to provide Livingston with its Community Paramedic Program to serve its residents. Community Paramedicine is a proven, proactive approach and solution to offer quality care and preventative services. The Program utilizes paramedics to provide guidance and care while helping residents become more independent from the emergency system and to use current available resources.

Livingston Fire and Rescue has partnered with MT DPHHS Community Integrated Health (CIH) Program, which is an emerging field in healthcare where EMTs, paramedics and nurses, operate in expanded roles to connect underutilized resources with underserved populations, filling gaps in care for the community. Check out this video highlighting Montana's program.

Community Paramedic Program: Target Patient Populations

• High Emergency Room (ER) System Utilizers — designed to help patients who are high utilizers of the 911 system/ERs. The program provides education and connects the patient with resources available in the community.

• Mental Health or Substance Abuse Issues — identifying patients who would be better served outside the emergency room setting and redirecting these individuals to the appropriate community resource(s) and helping with proper medication management.

• Diabetic Patients — Provide glucose monitoring, nutritional, and disease management education to diabetic patients to prevent unnecessary Emergency Department / EMS utilization.

• Frequent Falls — helping mitigate fall risks by performing in-home safety assessments and fall prevention education.

• Cardiac Care/ Chronic Respiratory Conditions — helping monitor blood pressure, manage medication compliance, nutrition, and education for patients who are diagnosed with cardiac issues/congestive heart failure or other chronic respiratory conditions.

Additional services:

• Patients monitor vital signs
• Setting up pill boxes and medication schedules
• Immunizations
• Wellness checks/in-home safety assessments for expectant mothers
• Wound care
• Health crisis mitigation
• Medication reconciliation
• Emergency preparedness education
• Non-emergency transport (must be ambulatory) to/from hospital visits and physician offices

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