{"id":63268,"date":"2025-08-12T05:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63268\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:58:30","slug":"program-meant-to-keep-seniors-out-of-hospital-made-permanent-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63268\/","title":{"rendered":"Program meant to keep seniors out of hospital made permanent in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario\u2019s long-term care minister has announced that the province is making a paramedic program that helps keep patients out of hospital permanent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Natalia Kusendova-Bashta says the Community Paramedicine for Long-Term Care program has served more than 81,000 people since launching as a pilot project in 2020 and expanding across the province in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The program sees community paramedics treat seniors who are waiting for long-term care in their homes for non-emergency issues such as help with chronic disease management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government says community paramedics typically provide care within hours or days, which helps prevent emergency incidents and eases pressures on hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario is putting $89 million toward the program, which includes expanding services offered in First Nations communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs says the pilot project \u201chas demonstrated the unique role paramedics play in our health-care system outside of 911 response, by enabling seniors to age at home and reduce emergency room visits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Allison Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s long-term care minister has announced that the province is making a paramedic program that helps keep patients&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,11867,715],"class_list":["post-63268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-ontario-quebec","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}