Minnesota Gets Its Community Paramedics

Community paramedics will bring skills like suturing, vaccinations, blood draws to underserved areas


Interest in community paramedicine is high, adds Doyle, who says he and McAlpin have received calls from all across the country: "We've had so many questions and been on so many conference calls, all because somebody finally pulled the trigger and put it into law."

Marie Nordberg recently retired from her position as associate editor for EMS World.