HELENA, Mont. (NMB) – Governor Steve Bullock announced this week that six EMS services in Montana will pilot a model of community-based healthcare designed to expand the role of EMS providers to deliver more effective and efficient non-emergency services.
A press release says that the sites are Rocky Boy EMS, Great Falls Emergency Services, Jesse Ambulance in Broadus, Marcus Daly in Hamilton, Red Lodge Fire Department, and Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow.
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services secured $300,000 in federal and private funding for the two-year pilot, which includes a grant from the Montana Healthcare Foundation. All six sites have received $50,000 each to cover training and equipment expenses.
Community Integrated Healthcare means the provision of non-emergency, out-of-hospital medical services that an emergency care provider with an endorsement may provide as determined by rules being adopted by the Board of Medical Examiners of the Department of Labor and Industry.
