The Paramedic Foundation

Founded in 2013, The Paramedic Foundation is a non-governmental organisation based in Duluth, United States working on health, education.

The Paramedic Foundation is a Minnesota nonprofit corporation and a tax-exempt charity under Section 501(c)(3), headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota. It is a consulting and policy organisation that works to strengthen rural and frontier emergency medical services. Its work covers EMS system and regional governance design, community paramedicine and mobile integrated healthcare programmes, Medicaid and payer alignment, workforce development, and evaluation. Its clients include state agencies, county governments, regional EMS bodies and hospital systems, and it supports the Rural Health Transformation Program. The organisation also administers the International Roundtable on Community Paramedicine and offers training resources, with a focus on the structural governance, reimbursement and legal issues behind rural EMS fragility. Its work is nationwide in the United States, with international engagements across several continents. Initial consultations are free, and donations support its policy research, open-access publications and freely available governance tools.