Community Paramedicine Evaluation Tool

Community Paramedicine is an emerging field in health care where EMTs and Paramedics
operate in expanded roles in an effort to connect underutilized resources to underserved
populations. Although EMTs and Paramedics have operated in expanded roles in several
foreign countries, such as Canada, England, and New Zealand, for many years, in the U.S. the
concept first came to the attention of the EMS community, particularly the rural EMS community,
with the publication of the Rural and Frontier EMS Agenda for the Future in 2004 (Appendix D:
Additional Resources). That document described community paramedicine as a potential
framework that might . . .