Alberta Health is rolling out its community paramedic program in northern Alberta, as part of a provincewide expansion of medical house calls. Her family doctor arranged for a community paramedic to visit her acreage just outside city limits, where he checked her vitals and administered an IV drip. Audrey Merlo used the community paramedics program after becoming too sick to make it to the hospital on her own. In February, Alberta Health announced $11 million in new funding to more than double the number of community paramedics across the province. - John Rogers, Grande Prairie community paramedicA paramedic can respond to three or four calls a day, which usually take one to three hours each.

Source: CBC News April 22, 2018 15:00 UTC