2026 Ohio Mobile Integrated Healthcare Workshop
Community paramedicine began over 50 years ago in other developed nations where paramedics provided medical services and support to their communities within the patient’s residence without transport to a physician’s office or to a healthcare facility. Gary Wingrove, a paramedic at the Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service, launched the first formal community paramedicine program in the United States in 2001.
Since that time, community paramedicine has become a critical element of mobile integrated healthcare. As defined by the Commission on the Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS), mobile integrated healthcare is a coordinated, patient-centered, evidence-based, holistic model of care using collaborative, interdisciplinary teams to serve patient needs at the most appropriate level of care at a safe out-of-hospital location.
Active and engaged EMS medical direction is essential in the foundation of any mobile integrated healthcare system, regardless of whether it is based in a metropolitan, suburban, or rural region. This workshop is a cost-effective avenue for Ohio’s EMS medical directors, EMS agencies, and other partners and stakeholders to acquire the knowledge to create a sustainable and fiscally sound mobile integrated healthcare network and/or to enhance and empower their system that already exists.