Paralign Health

Thanks to Gina Mangus, Moses Adedoyin, and the GuideWell team for hosting Paralign Health at GuideWell's Innovation Center in Lake Nona, Florida. Excited about the impact we can have together through community paramedicine.

Paralign was on the ground in Kansas City last week, where our CEO, Aaron Molloy, met with fire and EMS chiefs to discuss community paramedicine (MIH-CP) across Missouri and Kansas—some pictured here in-person, some who Zoomed in from afar! We’re excited to be working with these programs to sustain and scale community paramedicine through health plan partnerships across the two states. 

𝐌𝐈𝐇-𝐂𝐏 𝐈𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐀 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲, 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢 Washington County, Missouri has one of the nation’s best community paramedicine programs. Earlier this month, we took a trip out to WashCo to learn how they’re doing it. (And to eat Missouri barbecue.) Here’s what we learned... featuring WashCo Community Paramedic Tony, WashCo Ambulance District CEO Justin Duncan, and Paralign Founder Aaron Molloy). ⬇️⬇️⬇️

𝑴𝑰𝑯-𝑪𝑷: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 & 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒚 🚑🥼🩺 Here at Paralign, we’re making it our mission to reach medically underserved Americans through Mobile Integrated Health-Community Paramedicine (MIH-CP). That’s a lot of letters, so we’re breaking it all down here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡. 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚. 🌅 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝑾𝒆 𝑫𝒐 𝑰𝒕: One in four Americans live in medically underserved areas. These patients often lack sufficient access to primary care, and face worse outcomes and higher mortality rates. 𝐖𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞. 🤝 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑾𝒆 𝑫𝒐: We enable health plans to reach and proactively treat these high-need, hard-to-reach members with local health care resources that are already on the ground, embedded in fire departments and EMS agencies. This model—EMS-led, in-home preventative care—is known as community paramedicine (MIH-CP), and it creates value for stakeholders across the health care ecosystem—providers, payors, and patients. Previous pilots have resulted in: 🧘 80% reduction in 911 call volume from high-need patients 📉 50% cost reduction from rural pilot  📈 4:1 ROI for health plans 🧑💻 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑾𝒆 𝑫𝒐 𝑰𝒕: We provide health plans with the network, resources, and platform to scale community paramedicine. We identify the highest-need patients who will benefit the most from MIH-CP. We bring health plans and fire/EMS teams to the same table to plan and deliver care. And all the pesky administrative back-end—contracting, credentialing, visit verification, claims? We handle that, too. 🏃 𝑾𝒆’𝒗𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑩𝒖𝒔𝒚: We’re backed by the Healthworx Studio and recently launched a pilot with many more on the horizon. We’re led by EMT (🩺!) Aaron Molloy who has a decade of healthcare strategy experience, and we’ve recently brought on leaders from across the payor and EMS landscapes. 📲 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒇: **You’re a health plan interested in leveraging a community paramedicine program to reach your members . **You’re a fire department or EMS agency with an MIH-CP program, and you're interested in bolstering and/or growing it with a sustainable funding model. Or, you're interested in launching a new MIH-CP program in your region with the support of local health plans **You’re a strategic partner interested in scalable, community-based health care solutions.  Learn more about us at paralign.health or say hi at info@paralign.health!