Mobile Integrated Healthcare: Approach to Implementation provides a step-by-step approach for identifying community needs, forming the appropriate partnerships, selecting staff, acquiring resources, identifying patients, and overcoming hurdles to a successful program.

The purpose of this Guidebook is to guide you through the research, analysis, planning, development, and successful launch of your own customized Florida Mobile Integrated Healthcare – Community Paramedicine (MIH-CP) Program. In addition to guidance, it provides recommendations and lessons learned from MIH-CP programs in Florida, advice from experts across the country, with expanded resources and templates. This Guidebook is not designed to tell you what you must do, but to provide suggestions and ideas on what to consider in developing your own MIH-CP. As you read it, remember that not all the information in the Guidebook will apply to you or your organization. Use it to think through the elements of your program and remember that a successful program must be anchored in your community. The Guidebook is organized linearly – take each step by step, so you end up with an operational program.

Partial summary: Mobile integrated health care and community paramedicine are models of health care delivery that use emergency medical services (EMS) personnel to fill gaps in local health care infrastructure. Community paramedics may perform in an expanded role and require additional training in the management of chronic disease, communication skills, and cultural sensitivity, whereas other models use all levels of EMS personnel without additional training...

The two-volume Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight delivers a thorough foundation upon which to succeed as an EMS medical director and prepare for the NAEMSP National EMS Medical Directors Course and Practicum. Focusing on EMS in the 'real world', the book offers specific management tools that will be useful in the reader's own local EMS system and provides contextual understanding of how EMS functions within the broader emergency care system at a state, local, and national level. The two volumes offer the core knowledge trainees will need to successfully complete their training and begin their career as EMS physicians, regardless of the EMS systems in use in their areas. A companion website rounds out the book's offerings with audio and video clips of EMS best practice in action. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: A thorough introduction to the history of EMS An exploration of EMS airway management, including procedures and challenges, as well as how to manage ventilation, oxygenation, and breathing in patients, including cases of respiratory distress Practical discussions of medical problems, including the challenges posed by the undifferentiated patient, altered mental status, cardiac arrest and dysrhythmias, seizures, stroke, and allergic reactions An examination of EMS systems, structure, and leadership