03/28/2017 - Community Paramedicine with Buck McAlpin and Patrick Ryan

This EMS Live in Wisconsin podcast was recorded on Tuesday, March 28, and is dedicated to Community Paramedicine.  Guests included Minnesota Ambulance Association Legislative Lobbyist Buck McAlpin and PAAW President Patrick Ryan.

The Wisconsin Legislature is currently considering Community Paramedicine legislation.  The Assembly's Committe on Health held a public hearing on March 22, 2017, and an executive session has been called for March 29, 2017, to vote on AB151, the Community Paramedicine Bill.

Minnesota is a leading state in Community Paramedicine, with its bill signed into law in 2011.  McAlpin was instrumental in the bill passing in Minnesota, and has consulted with PAAW and other ambulance services in Wisconsin wishing to deliver Community Paramedicine in the badger state.  McAlpin's employer, North Memorial Medical Center, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, offered a two-day class in September 2015 for Wisconsin's ambulance services and other healthcare providers to review their operation and stats, to meet those delivering out-of-hospital Community Paramedicine care, and help organizations begin to lay the groundwork for Community Paramedicine in their own community.