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  • Characteristics of California’s EMT and Paramedic Workforce

    02-21-23
    Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics play critical roles in delivering emergency services to Californians. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic employers have reported increased difficulty recruiting and retaining EMTs and paramedics. In light of this situation, there is a...

  • Utilization of Community Paramedics to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    02-01-22
    Objective Some health systems and emergency medical services agencies in the United States are leveraging the versatility and experience of community paramedics to meet needs for COVID-19 testing, care, and vaccination. This report describes models of community paramedic practice that communities...

  • Evaluation of California’s Community Paramedicine Pilot Program

    02-19-21
    Community paramedicine, also known as mobile integrated health, is an innovative model of care that is being implemented throughout the United States. From 2014 to 2020, the California Emergency Medical Services Authority sponsored a Health Workforce Pilot Project under which specially trained...

  • Left Behind in California: Comparing Community Paramedicine Policies Across States

    11-14-19
    Community paramedicine is a growing health care model in which emergency medical professionals such as paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) work beyond their traditional emergency care roles and provide nonemergency care. This model is based on local need and seeks to avoid...

  • New Model of Paramedicine Could Reduce Demand for Long-Term Care

    11-17-16
    Mobile integrated healthcare – community paramedicine (MIH-CP) is a new model of care that trains paramedics to deliver a broader range of services than traditional emergency response and transport of people to emergency departments (ED). By 2014, more than 100 emergency medical services (EMS)...

  • Men of Color in California’s Health Professions Education Programs

    10-01-10
    It has long been known that certain ethnic and racial groups are underrepresented in the health professions. We looked specifically at participation rates of men of color in health professions education programs in California and found that the representation of African American and Latino men is...

  • Can a Four-Dimensional Model of Occupational Commitment Help to Explain Intent to Leave the Emergency Medical Service Occupation?

    09-01-09
    Using a sample of 854 emergency medical service (EMS) respondents, this study supported a four-dimension model of occupational commitment, comprised of affective, normative, accumulated costs, and limited alternatives. When personal and job-related variables were controlled, general job...

  • Correlates of Intent to Leave Job and Profession for Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics

    01-01-09
    Purpose–A very limited number of studies have explored factors related to emergency medical services (EMS) workers leaving their jobs and the profession. This paper aims to investigate the correlates of intent to leave EMS jobs and the profession and compared two types of workers: emergency medical...

  • EMS Workforce for the 21st Century: A National Assessment

    06-13-08
    Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics are a critical component of any community’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system. Assuring the continued viability of the prehospital EMS workforce is a key concern for many local, State, Federal, and tribal EMS agencies, as well as national...

  • Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics in California

    01-01-04
    EMTs and Paramedics are essential members of the health care workforce. They are an intrinsic part of California's and the nation's emergency medical system. This issue brief examines this workforce in California where the number of EMT’s and Paramedics per capita are below the U.S. average. Lack...