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LONDON, ONT. A new pilot project will see paramedics operate mobile vaccination clinics for people who have faced challenges booking or attending appointments. “The Middlesex-London Paramedic Service has been able to secure 1,000 doses of vaccine that we can distribute within the Middlesex-London region,” explains Cathy Burghardt-Jesson, Warden of Middlesex County. The vaccine will be administered to people unable to leave their homes, vulnerable residents, and employees of some workplaces. Advocacy for the program began with the Middlesex Economic Resilience Task Force. “That task force is made up of employers and leaders in our communities,” adds Warden Burghardt-Jesson. “One of their big asks was to find a way to get vaccine into workplaces and our communities.
LONDON, ONT. Neal Roberts, the Chief with the Middlesex-London Paramedic Service says in more than 40 years, he’s never experienced anything like this. “I was in the emergency unit on the weekend and call after call our paramedics were coming in with positive COVID patients,” says Roberts. “These patients are sicker, especially with the variants of concern.” Now on top of the heavy workload here, the service is being called upon to help with the dire situation in the Greater Toronto Area transporting critically ill patients to other hospitals in southwestern Ontario. “On a daily basis we are working with London Health Sciences Centre on taking a team of an intensive care physician, a respiratory therapist and an intensive care nurse up to Toronto to bring back an intensive care or critical care patient,“ says Roberts.
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Mar 3, 2021 7:33 AM
A newly announced long-term care focused community paramedicine program leverages the skills of community paramedic providers to help end hallway health care and provide additional care for seniors.
The Ontario government is investing $6 million to expand the community paramedicine for long-term care program in London and Middlesex County. This initiative will help more seniors stay safe while living in the comfort of their own homes for longer.
Deputy Chief of Professional Standards for Middlesex London Paramedic Service, Michael Longeway, says this is really exciting news, and knows it will free up resources for 911 among other benefits. He says it can act as a way to prevent needing emergency aid or even a hospital.
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A $5.9-million provincial funding boost will help the London-area paramedic service expand its paramedicine program to reach more vulnerable patients in the community.
When the program was launched by the Middlesex-London Paramedic Service, it focused on community patients in London and Middlesex County diagnosed with chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes. It also now offers care and pain and other symptom relief to patients in palliative care.
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The program’s main goal is to provide services to patients in their homes to reduce unnecessary visits to hospital emergency rooms. About 100 people are part of the program.