More than emergencies
The Community Paramedicine Program at Lancaster EMS
The Community Paramedicine (CP) Program is an innovative, proven solution to provide high quality primary care and prevention services by deploying a currently inexpensive and often underutilized healthcare resource.
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A History of compassionate care
About Lancaster EMS
The Community Paramedicine Program is a branch of Lancaster EMS: a premier, nationally accredited ambulance service located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Our diverse emergency response district serves over 260,000 residents in 21 municipalities encompassing urban, suburban, and rural portions of Lancaster County. Included within our primary response districts are numerous tourist attractions, industries, businesses, colleges and universities.
As the busiest EMS provider in Lancaster County, Lancaster EMS answered over 39,000 requests for service in 2020 from our 11 ambulance station locations. We provide advanced life support (ALS), basic life support (BLS), quick response service (QRS), wheelchair van, paratransit, mental health sedan, and specialty transportation services. In addition to transportation services, Lancaster EMS offers medical standby coverage at sporting and mass gathering events, mobile integrated healthcare community paramedicine, and participation with the Lancaster County SERT team and South Central Task Force.
Lancaster EMS, in partnership with the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, conducts Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Paramedic training programs. As an American Heart Association (AHA) Training Center, Lancaster EMS serves as a trainer and facilitator for many of the courses offered by the AHA for both healthcare providers and the general public. Through continual training in our educational institute, Lancaster EMS employees and volunteers are able to administer high quality, skillful pre-hospital care and transportation to those residents and visitors in our community.
What our Providers are Saying
“I have been a nurse for going on 5 years. For the first 4 ½ years I was in the office setting. I enjoyed my job but did not feel as if I was doing as much as I could as an LPN…I was so excited to start with the CP program because it seemed I would be doing more for patients. Not only am I doing more hands on work with patients like assessments, wound care, phlebotomy just to name a few but the work is so much more personable. I have found a passion working with these patients watching them start at rock bottom and meet goals, improve their health and form relationships.”
Erin Wiegand
Community Paramedicine Provider
Premiere PREVENTATIVE care
Transforming Our Community
Learn more about some of the innovative work our Community Paramedicine Providers are doing to keep Lancaster County healthy and happy.
Refresh Lancaster
Refresh Lancaster is a mobile shower and medical office unit for those in need stationed at six different locations throughout Lancaster County every week.
New Parent Program
Introducing a new member of your family can be a joyful experience. Most new parents have questions about the health and safety of their newborn. Lancaster EMS has developed a program for families with newborns.
Low Acuity 911s
The Lancaster EMS Field Provider is a certified paramedic whose priority is to respond to low acuity 911 dispatches, but is also capable of providing advanced emergency care should the patient condition warrant.
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