Mobile Integrated Healthcare provides patient-centered health care visits that are:
The purpose of this model is to:
A community paramedic can respond to 9-1-1 calls and scheduled visits. These at-home visits may include:
For health care professionals only
Primary care physicians, Home and Community Care Support Services, and allied agencies may refer eligible patients to the Community Paramedic High User and Long-Term Care programs.
Eligibility
For more information:
In an emergency, always dial 9-1-1.
The community assessment response team responds to 9-1-1 calls or scheduled visits to address many non-life-threatening, non time-critical calls that can be handled without transporting to hospital.
Paramedics on these teams:
When a 9-1-1 call is determined not to be life-threatening and not time-critical, an emergency medical dispatcher will transfer the call to one of our emergency communication nurses. The nurse will ask for your health card number to access your files and continue to ask further medical questions.
The certified emergency registered nurse is located in the Niagara Emergency Medical Services dispatch centre and:
The falls intervention team responds to 9-1-1 calls to better address the demand for non-life-threatening falls from ground level in real time.
Staffed with a paramedic and an occupational therapist, the team will:
The mental health and addictions response team responds to 9-1-1 calls to better address the demand for non-life-threatening mental health and addictions challenges in real time.
The mental health nurse works with the paramedic to:
The palliative care paramedic responds to 9-1-1 calls and scheduled visits to address the needs of patients at end of life that can be handled without transporting to hospital.
Paramedics on this team will:
The street outreach team responds to many non-life-threatening, non time-critical calls for those unhoused that can be handled without transporting to hospital. The primary goal of this team is to bridge the gap in accessing fair primary care for the living-rough Niagara.
Paramedics on this team will: